Clergyman
A clergyman is an ordained minister of the Anglican Church, or of some other Protestant churches. 'Vicar' and 'pastor' are other possibilities. 'Rector' is used in some Scottish Presbyterian churches. 'The clergy' is often used as a group term. The word 'cleric', meaning a clerk, is the root term. It comes from the fact that all clerics could read and write, at a time when this was a rare skill.
By general use and convention, Anglican ministers are not called priests. This is because the unqualified term 'priest' or 'father' is widely used as referring to the Catholic Church. Of course, in modern times an Anglican minister may be female, in which case the term 'reverend' or 'minister' may be used.
Clergyman Media
Catholic clergy at the consecration of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo (1889).
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14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso in 2007
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Bishop Maurício Andrade, primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil, gives a crosier to Bishop Saulo Barros.
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Archbishop Jose S. Palma with his assistant ministers during Pontifical High Mass
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Orthodox Christian clergy: bishop (right, at altar), priest (left), and two deacons (in gold)
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