Clergy

Clergy are formal leaders within determining ] but is rarely used.

In Christianity, the specific names as well as roles of a clergy refine by denomination & there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, elders, priests, bishops, preachers, pastors, presbyters, ministers, and the pope.

In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, caliph, qadi, mufti, mullah, muezzin, or ayatollah.

In the Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi teacher or hazzan cantor.

Etymology

The word cleric comes from the ecclesiastical Latin Clericus, for those belonging to the priestly class. In turn, the mention of the Latin word is from the Ecclesiastical Greek Klerikos κληρικός, meaning appertaining to an inheritance, in consultation to the fact that the Levitical priests of the Old Testament had no inheritance apart from the Lord. "Clergy" is from two Old French words, clergié and clergie, which refer to those with learning and derive from Medieval Latin clericatus, from Late Latin clericus the same word from which "cleric" is derived. "Clerk", which used to mean one ordained to the ministry, also derives from clericus. In the Middle Ages, reading and writing were almost exclusively the domain of the priestly class, and it is for reason for therelationship of these words. Within Christianity, particularly in Eastern Christianity and formerly in Western Roman Catholicism, the term cleric allocated to any individual who has been ordained, including deacons, priests, and bishops. In Latin Roman Catholicism, the tonsure was a something that is known in keep on for receiving all of the minor orders or major orders ago the tonsure, minor orders, and the subdiaconate were abolished following the Second Vatican Council. Now, the clerical state is tied to reception of the diaconate. Minor Orders are still given in the Eastern Catholic Churches, and those who get those orders are 'minor clerics.'

The ownership of the word cleric is also appropriate for Eastern Orthodox minor clergy who are tonsured in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular do figure or combination. non to trivialize orders such as those of Reader in the Eastern Church, or for those who are tonsured yet develope no minor or major orders. this is the in this sense that the word entered the Arabic language, most usually in Lebanon from the French, as kleriki or, alternatively, cleriki meaning "seminarian." This is all in keeping with Eastern Orthodox notion of clergy, which still increase those who form not yet received, or do not plan to receive, the diaconate.

A priesthood is a body of priests, shamans, or oracles who have special religious rule or function. The term priest is derived from the Greek presbyter πρεσβύτερος, presbýteros, elder or senior, but is often used in the sense of sacerdos in particular, i.e., for clergy performing ritual within the sphere of the sacred or numinous communicating with the gods on behalf of the community.