church leadership
2
3.6
- noun
:
liderazgo eclesiástico
- Many religious women have stopped listening to church leadership because it doesn't listen to them.
Examples
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Such reflections ultimately lead to the same goal that the church leadership wanted.
Academic text (2013) -
Lastly, when the society experiences pervasive unrest or the prospect of fundamental political change, it may be possible for church leadership to intervene as a catalyst, to serve as an "honest broker" to begin or facilitate processes for change.
Academic text (1992) -
Others' family members held church leadership positions for generations.
Academic text (2007) -
Wilson claims that he tried to use the moral authority of the church leadership to encourage Pacific Press to comply with the new policy.
Academic text (1998) -
As the success of the contemporary service grew, church leadership asked Kneprath to explore adding a contemporary Saturday evening service.
Blog text (20) -
Responsible church leadership will respect this right (as was emphasized by Vatican II).
Academic text (1991) -
The complaint, then, isn't with citizens who are Catholics but with the current church leadership.
Academic text (2005) -
Instead, it may be more feasible to work with a coalition of members within the church leadership structure that would include elders, deacons, and trustees.
Academic text (2008) -
Even so, there is a remarkable continuity in statements of the church leadership on public issues like land reform, elections, racism, and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Academic text (2007) -
The church leadership organized a community event to bring people together.
Synonyms
510
3.5
Ability to guide and inspire people so they work well together
73
3.6
A group of religious leaders like priests or pastors who lead Christian services
1
8.6
The group of people who lead local churches in the same religious group
A group of church leaders who make official decisions
The group of priests in a church who serve together
A system where bishops and senior leaders lead the church
People who are in charge of a group, organization, or country
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'church' (a religious organization) combined with 'leadership' (the people who direct an organization) yields 'the leaders or act of leading within a church', which a B1 learner who knows both words can infer. This noun+leadership pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English composition, so the expression is immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
Church leadership comes from the simple image of people in a church who do leadership by 'leading' their group, like a shepherd guiding a flock. So today church leadership means the people who 'guide' and manage a church.