Rector Synonyms

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Synonyms for Rector

clergywoman
A woman who is a member of the clergy.
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clergyman
A man who is a member of the clergy.
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principal
(UK, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
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parson
An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
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cleric
A member of the clergy
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priest
In the early Christian church, a presbyter, or elder
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proctor
A person employed to manage the affairs of another; agent; attorney
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curate
(Archaic) Any clergyman
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minister of religion
a person authorized to conduct religious worship
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pastor
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
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minister
A diplomatic officer sent to a foreign nation to represent his or her government, usually ranking below an ambassador
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vicar
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bishop
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abbot
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priest-in-charge
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Rector Sentence Examples

  • He became rector of St James's, Westminster, in 1733, and bishop of Bristol in 1735.

  • In 1882 he became professor of theology at Erlangen, and in 1889 proceeded to Leipzig, where he was professor until 1898, and then for a year rector of the university.

  • Oxford, Edinburgh and Glasgow gave him honorary degrees; the two Scottish universities made him lord rector.

  • He was once made rector of his university, and had other distinctions bestowed on him.

  • In 1872 he became docent, and in 1882 professor of political economy at Upsala, of which university he was afterwards rector.

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