What is the difference between priest vs pastor?
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Priests are members of the ordained clergy usually associated with universal or particular-denomination churches. Pastors are a level of minister or evangelist below that of bishop in some denominations.
In many Christian denominations, parish priests often share pastoral duties with the parish’s minister as defined by its church polity. The term pastor used to be very common only for Northern European Lutheran and Reformed churches until these 19th century groups from those regions immigrated to North America and elsewhere, taking their old theological terms with them (i.e., the word “pastor” comes from “parish priest”).
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