Synonyms of the word

curate

• n. an assistant rector or vicar.
• n. a parish priest.
• v. (transitive) To act as a curator for.
• v. (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
• v. (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.

clergyman

• n. An ordained (male) Christian minister, a male member of the clergy.

minister

• n. A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant…
• n. A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
• n. At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
• n. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
• v. (transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
• v. to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.

parson

• n. An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
• n. A Protestant minister.

pastor

• n. (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
• n. Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
• n. A minister or a priest in a Christian church.
• v. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive) To serve a congregation as pastor.

rector

• n. In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
• n. In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church…
• n. (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative…
• n. A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.

reverend

• adj. worthy of reverence or respect.
• n. (informal) a member of the Christian clergy.