minister of religion
- noun
:
ministro de religión
- Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was able to obtain a green card by qualifying as a minister of religion using a false name.
Examples
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They included college deferments and a 31-month stretch as a "minister of religion" in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries that the church at the time feared was being overused.
Blog text (25) -
Things were hunky-dory and bright and beautiful, and then they started to ban us in certain places. Public controversy followed, and Afrikaans ministers of religion started playing records backwards to find satanic messages.
Academic text (2004) -
- I'm a minister of religion.
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For the first time, a nonreligious minister served as minister of religion.
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What is striking is that at least three members were the sons of ministers of religion, and some of the others had a strict religious upbringing.
Academic text (2004) -
(It is not difficult to understand the initiative taken by the former Orthodox minister of religion to establish a fund that would subsidize trips abroad for couples who could not marry in Israel.)
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"It was even proposed (but not implemented) that the religious parties abstain on the Oslo B vote in return for the removal of the minister of religion.
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Then for two and a half years, as he served as a Mormon missionary in France, he maintained a deferment as a minister of religion or divinity student.
Blog text (25) -
The minister of religion led the congregation in prayer every Sunday.
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As a minister of religion, he provides guidance and support to his community.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who leads religious ceremonies and worship in a church or temple
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3.0
A religious leader who cares for and leads a Christian church, usually in Protestant churches
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3.2
A person who gives sermons in a church
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2.6
A religious leader who leads worship and helps people
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5.2
A Christian church leader often given a formal title before their name
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3.6
A group of religious leaders like priests or pastors who lead Christian services
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6.4
A religious leader who leads services and prayers in a church
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3.4
A person who guides a group's religious beliefs and practices
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5.4
A Christian priest in charge of a local church
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4.7
A man who leads services and gives spiritual help in a church
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8.2
A Christian minister in charge of a local church
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9.1
A senior church leader who has authority over other clergy
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7.8
A church leader who leads services and cares for a local church
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8.8
A member of the church who helps a priest with services and care
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7.9
A person who leads a religious ceremony like a wedding
A person who helps during a religious service, for example by giving communion
A bishop who leads a serious church ceremony
A person who has an official job in a church and helps lead it
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from the constituents: 'minister' (a clergy member) combined with the genitive relation 'of' and 'religion' clearly denotes a clergy person affiliated with religious worship. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard noun + of + noun formation, so a B1 learner who knows the component words will understand it.
Etymology
Minister of religion comes from an old word for 'servant': a minister was someone who served, and religion shows they served God and the community. So a minister of religion is a person officially chosen to lead worship and perform religious ceremonies.