Definition of pastor in English:

pastor

noun ˈpɑːstəˈpæstər

1A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation, especially in some non-episcopal churches.
（基督教教堂中，尤指某些非圣公会教堂的）本堂牧师
Example sentencesExamples
- Rarely does a congregation want the pastor to lead the church into an era of decline!
- We would suggest that it is precisely those congregations and pastors who are already engaged in faithful and vital ministry who had the most to draw on in this time of crisis.
- Every day, Christian students find themselves in a dilemma between what their teachers say in class and what their pastors preach at church.
- They are deacons, women religious, or lay ministers who effectively serve as pastors of congregations, though they are unable to celebrate the Eucharist.
- Similar comments were made by all the other pastors where I ministered.
- Unlike this bishop, church leaders, pastors and congregations need to create the opportunities for youth to discern their call to ministry.
- Many of the scholars mentioned in your article are among our founding members, but the project involves pastors, lay church leaders, and social activists.
- Family members, congregational members, pastors, and other church leaders are called to honor marriage.
- Once fully equipped with the teaching of God's Word, they go home and teach their local pastors and church workers in their own country so that they, too, can reach their own nation with the truth.
- In another report, a pastor and his wife ministering in the southwestern city of Galle were riding in a bus when the tsunami first hit.
- Many times church leaders or pastors may say that a ministry's goal is to change lives.
- Sending or lending married pastors to Catholic churches is a generous ecumenical gesture.
- I quickly assured my new friend that we are a church of five pastors but that every member of our congregation is a minister!
- Many pastors, youth ministers, elders, and parishioners effectively intervene to help such troubled families.
- At both churches the two congregations share the pastor and property.
- Christian priests, ministers, pastors, and deacons lead weekly services and conduct marriages and funerals.
- As a bishop, she is pledged to uphold church law and file charges against pastors who openly defy it.
- Were that to happen, it would require that bishops be more fully what they are ordained to be, pastors of local churches charged with the tasks of teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
- At least this interpretation was how several pastors and ordinary church members understood the situation.
- But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels.
Synonyms
priest, minister (of religion), parson, clergyman, cleric, chaplain, padre, father, ecclesiastic, man of God, man of the cloth, churchman, preacher
Scottish kirkman
North American dominie
informal reverend, Holy Joe, sky pilot
Australian informal josser
2
another term for rose-coloured starling

verb ˈpɑːstəˈpæstər

[with object]

Be pastor of (a church or congregation)
做（教堂或圣会的）牧师
he pastored Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto
他在帕洛阿尔托的半岛圣经教会做过牧师。
no object he continued to study law while pastoring in Chelsea
他在切尔西做牧师的时候还继续学习法律。
Example sentencesExamples
- She graduated from New Brunswick last May and is pastoring Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brookyln, New York.
- And the women who pastored churches in the Southern Baptist Convention make up 1/10 of one percent.
- He has pastored churches in Northern California and Oregon but we moved back to retire here, our home.
- I pastored a church in England back in the '80s, moved back to the States at the end of the '80s and my brother had been doing children's theatre.
- Prior to this he had pastored churches in Gloucestershire and Bedfordshire.
- In the last two years of his life, he became a Presbyterian, pastoring a church in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
- I have pastored churches all through Neshoba County for over fifty years.
- After attending Mercer University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he pastored churches in both the North and the South between 1903 and 1917.
- I have never pastored large congregations nor preached to great numbers of people.
- I think he is much more concerned with how I am loving my neighbors, caring for the sick, and pastoring the church in a way that honors Him.
- He pastored small churches in Kentucky for over fifty-seven years - from the time that he commenced studies at Southern.
- Having pastored churches in both Wetaskiwin and Steinbach, let me state my opinions based upon my experience.
- He graduated in 1931 and pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, before returning to preach at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church.
- I am a licensed Vineyard pastor, pastoring an American Baptist church on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
- So we came here and he's now pastoring the little church in the neighborhood,’ Jason said as he took a sip of his cocoa.
- As a young adult, I was involved in pastoring churches full time and part time in Michigan and Kansas City.
- Her great-grandfather pastored that congregation.
- In 1959 Andrew was ordained as a minister and has served the Lord faithfully in different ministries, pastoring churches in Mexico and Texas.
- In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations.
- Yet, only 9 percent of these ordained women were pastoring churches.

Derivatives

pastorship

noun

Trying to decide to whom we would offer the pastorship was as close as I ever came to being a cardinal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, the life-changing concept that she has embraced in her pastorship has become the source of her new book.
- He resigned his associate pastorship in 1989 and, with the help of an inheritance and some investments, earned an MBA in marketing at Portland State University.
- Still, a joint pastorship returned briefly about a decade ago.
- 1848 The Free Church of Scotland settlement is established at New Edinburgh, later Dunedin, New Zealand, under the pastorship of the reverend.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pastour, from Latin pastor 'shepherd', from past- 'fed, grazed', from the verb pascere.

pasture from Middle English:
The word pasture comes via Old French from late Latin pastura ‘grazing’, from the verb pascere ‘to graze’. A clergyman is seen as the shepherd of his flock, and pastor (Late Middle English) is the Latin for ‘shepherd, feeder’. Late Middle English pastoral is from Latin pastoralis ‘relating to a shepherd’. Its use in literary, art, and musical contexts dates from the late 16th century.

Rhymes

blaster, caster, castor, faster, grandmaster, headmaster, master, plaster

Definition of pastor in US English:

pastor

nounˈpastərˈpæstər

A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation.
（基督教教堂中，尤指某些非圣公会教堂的）本堂牧师
Example sentencesExamples
- But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels.
- Unlike this bishop, church leaders, pastors and congregations need to create the opportunities for youth to discern their call to ministry.
- I quickly assured my new friend that we are a church of five pastors but that every member of our congregation is a minister!
- We would suggest that it is precisely those congregations and pastors who are already engaged in faithful and vital ministry who had the most to draw on in this time of crisis.
- Were that to happen, it would require that bishops be more fully what they are ordained to be, pastors of local churches charged with the tasks of teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
- Family members, congregational members, pastors, and other church leaders are called to honor marriage.
- As a bishop, she is pledged to uphold church law and file charges against pastors who openly defy it.
- At both churches the two congregations share the pastor and property.
- Christian priests, ministers, pastors, and deacons lead weekly services and conduct marriages and funerals.
- Many of the scholars mentioned in your article are among our founding members, but the project involves pastors, lay church leaders, and social activists.
- Many times church leaders or pastors may say that a ministry's goal is to change lives.
- In another report, a pastor and his wife ministering in the southwestern city of Galle were riding in a bus when the tsunami first hit.
- Similar comments were made by all the other pastors where I ministered.
- Every day, Christian students find themselves in a dilemma between what their teachers say in class and what their pastors preach at church.
- Many pastors, youth ministers, elders, and parishioners effectively intervene to help such troubled families.
- Sending or lending married pastors to Catholic churches is a generous ecumenical gesture.
- At least this interpretation was how several pastors and ordinary church members understood the situation.
- Rarely does a congregation want the pastor to lead the church into an era of decline!
- Once fully equipped with the teaching of God's Word, they go home and teach their local pastors and church workers in their own country so that they, too, can reach their own nation with the truth.
- They are deacons, women religious, or lay ministers who effectively serve as pastors of congregations, though they are unable to celebrate the Eucharist.
Synonyms
priest, minister, minister of religion, parson, clergyman, cleric, chaplain, padre, father, ecclesiastic, man of god, man of the cloth, churchman, preacher

verbˈpastərˈpæstər

[with object]

Be pastor of (a church or congregation)
做（教堂或圣会的）牧师
he pastored Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto
他在帕洛阿尔托的半岛圣经教会做过牧师。
no object he continued to study law while pastoring in Chicago
他在切尔西做牧师的时候还继续学习法律。
Example sentencesExamples
- In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations.
- I think he is much more concerned with how I am loving my neighbors, caring for the sick, and pastoring the church in a way that honors Him.
- I am a licensed Vineyard pastor, pastoring an American Baptist church on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
- In 1959 Andrew was ordained as a minister and has served the Lord faithfully in different ministries, pastoring churches in Mexico and Texas.
- I have pastored churches all through Neshoba County for over fifty years.
- I have never pastored large congregations nor preached to great numbers of people.
- Her great-grandfather pastored that congregation.
- He pastored small churches in Kentucky for over fifty-seven years - from the time that he commenced studies at Southern.
- He graduated in 1931 and pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, before returning to preach at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church.
- Having pastored churches in both Wetaskiwin and Steinbach, let me state my opinions based upon my experience.
- I pastored a church in England back in the '80s, moved back to the States at the end of the '80s and my brother had been doing children's theatre.
- As a young adult, I was involved in pastoring churches full time and part time in Michigan and Kansas City.
- After attending Mercer University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he pastored churches in both the North and the South between 1903 and 1917.
- He has pastored churches in Northern California and Oregon but we moved back to retire here, our home.
- So we came here and he's now pastoring the little church in the neighborhood,’ Jason said as he took a sip of his cocoa.
- Yet, only 9 percent of these ordained women were pastoring churches.
- In the last two years of his life, he became a Presbyterian, pastoring a church in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
- And the women who pastored churches in the Southern Baptist Convention make up 1/10 of one percent.
- She graduated from New Brunswick last May and is pastoring Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brookyln, New York.
- Prior to this he had pastored churches in Gloucestershire and Bedfordshire.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pastour, from Latin pastor ‘shepherd’, from past- ‘fed, grazed’, from the verb pascere.

词汇	pastor
释义	Definition of pastor in English: pastor noun ˈpɑːstəˈpæstər 1A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation, especially in some non-episcopal churches. （基督教教堂中，尤指某些非圣公会教堂的）本堂牧师 Example sentencesExamples Rarely does a congregation want the pastor to lead the church into an era of decline! We would suggest that it is precisely those congregations and pastors who are already engaged in faithful and vital ministry who had the most to draw on in this time of crisis. Every day, Christian students find themselves in a dilemma between what their teachers say in class and what their pastors preach at church. They are deacons, women religious, or lay ministers who effectively serve as pastors of congregations, though they are unable to celebrate the Eucharist. Similar comments were made by all the other pastors where I ministered. Unlike this bishop, church leaders, pastors and congregations need to create the opportunities for youth to discern their call to ministry. Many of the scholars mentioned in your article are among our founding members, but the project involves pastors, lay church leaders, and social activists. Family members, congregational members, pastors, and other church leaders are called to honor marriage. Once fully equipped with the teaching of God's Word, they go home and teach their local pastors and church workers in their own country so that they, too, can reach their own nation with the truth. In another report, a pastor and his wife ministering in the southwestern city of Galle were riding in a bus when the tsunami first hit. Many times church leaders or pastors may say that a ministry's goal is to change lives. Sending or lending married pastors to Catholic churches is a generous ecumenical gesture. I quickly assured my new friend that we are a church of five pastors but that every member of our congregation is a minister! Many pastors, youth ministers, elders, and parishioners effectively intervene to help such troubled families. At both churches the two congregations share the pastor and property. Christian priests, ministers, pastors, and deacons lead weekly services and conduct marriages and funerals. As a bishop, she is pledged to uphold church law and file charges against pastors who openly defy it. Were that to happen, it would require that bishops be more fully what they are ordained to be, pastors of local churches charged with the tasks of teaching, sanctifying, and governing. At least this interpretation was how several pastors and ordinary church members understood the situation. But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels. Synonyms priest, minister (of religion), parson, clergyman, cleric, chaplain, padre, father, ecclesiastic, man of God, man of the cloth, churchman, preacher Scottish kirkman North American dominie informal reverend, Holy Joe, sky pilot Australian informal josser 2 another term for rose-coloured starling verb ˈpɑːstəˈpæstər [with object] Be pastor of (a church or congregation) 做（教堂或圣会的）牧师 he pastored Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto 他在帕洛阿尔托的半岛圣经教会做过牧师。 no object he continued to study law while pastoring in Chelsea 他在切尔西做牧师的时候还继续学习法律。 Example sentencesExamples She graduated from New Brunswick last May and is pastoring Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brookyln, New York. And the women who pastored churches in the Southern Baptist Convention make up 1/10 of one percent. He has pastored churches in Northern California and Oregon but we moved back to retire here, our home. I pastored a church in England back in the '80s, moved back to the States at the end of the '80s and my brother had been doing children's theatre. Prior to this he had pastored churches in Gloucestershire and Bedfordshire. In the last two years of his life, he became a Presbyterian, pastoring a church in Westchester, Pennsylvania. I have pastored churches all through Neshoba County for over fifty years. After attending Mercer University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he pastored churches in both the North and the South between 1903 and 1917. I have never pastored large congregations nor preached to great numbers of people. I think he is much more concerned with how I am loving my neighbors, caring for the sick, and pastoring the church in a way that honors Him. He pastored small churches in Kentucky for over fifty-seven years - from the time that he commenced studies at Southern. Having pastored churches in both Wetaskiwin and Steinbach, let me state my opinions based upon my experience. He graduated in 1931 and pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, before returning to preach at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church. I am a licensed Vineyard pastor, pastoring an American Baptist church on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. So we came here and he's now pastoring the little church in the neighborhood,’ Jason said as he took a sip of his cocoa. As a young adult, I was involved in pastoring churches full time and part time in Michigan and Kansas City. Her great-grandfather pastored that congregation. In 1959 Andrew was ordained as a minister and has served the Lord faithfully in different ministries, pastoring churches in Mexico and Texas. In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations. Yet, only 9 percent of these ordained women were pastoring churches. Derivatives pastorship noun Trying to decide to whom we would offer the pastorship was as close as I ever came to being a cardinal. Example sentencesExamples Indeed, the life-changing concept that she has embraced in her pastorship has become the source of her new book. He resigned his associate pastorship in 1989 and, with the help of an inheritance and some investments, earned an MBA in marketing at Portland State University. Still, a joint pastorship returned briefly about a decade ago. 1848 The Free Church of Scotland settlement is established at New Edinburgh, later Dunedin, New Zealand, under the pastorship of the reverend. Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pastour, from Latin pastor 'shepherd', from past- 'fed, grazed', from the verb pascere. pasture from Middle English: The word pasture comes via Old French from late Latin pastura ‘grazing’, from the verb pascere ‘to graze’. A clergyman is seen as the shepherd of his flock, and pastor (Late Middle English) is the Latin for ‘shepherd, feeder’. Late Middle English pastoral is from Latin pastoralis ‘relating to a shepherd’. Its use in literary, art, and musical contexts dates from the late 16th century. Rhymes blaster, caster, castor, faster, grandmaster, headmaster, master, plaster Definition of pastor in US English: pastor nounˈpastərˈpæstər A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation. （基督教教堂中，尤指某些非圣公会教堂的）本堂牧师 Example sentencesExamples But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels. Unlike this bishop, church leaders, pastors and congregations need to create the opportunities for youth to discern their call to ministry. I quickly assured my new friend that we are a church of five pastors but that every member of our congregation is a minister! We would suggest that it is precisely those congregations and pastors who are already engaged in faithful and vital ministry who had the most to draw on in this time of crisis. Were that to happen, it would require that bishops be more fully what they are ordained to be, pastors of local churches charged with the tasks of teaching, sanctifying, and governing. Family members, congregational members, pastors, and other church leaders are called to honor marriage. As a bishop, she is pledged to uphold church law and file charges against pastors who openly defy it. At both churches the two congregations share the pastor and property. Christian priests, ministers, pastors, and deacons lead weekly services and conduct marriages and funerals. Many of the scholars mentioned in your article are among our founding members, but the project involves pastors, lay church leaders, and social activists. Many times church leaders or pastors may say that a ministry's goal is to change lives. In another report, a pastor and his wife ministering in the southwestern city of Galle were riding in a bus when the tsunami first hit. Similar comments were made by all the other pastors where I ministered. Every day, Christian students find themselves in a dilemma between what their teachers say in class and what their pastors preach at church. Many pastors, youth ministers, elders, and parishioners effectively intervene to help such troubled families. Sending or lending married pastors to Catholic churches is a generous ecumenical gesture. At least this interpretation was how several pastors and ordinary church members understood the situation. Rarely does a congregation want the pastor to lead the church into an era of decline! Once fully equipped with the teaching of God's Word, they go home and teach their local pastors and church workers in their own country so that they, too, can reach their own nation with the truth. They are deacons, women religious, or lay ministers who effectively serve as pastors of congregations, though they are unable to celebrate the Eucharist. Synonyms priest, minister, minister of religion, parson, clergyman, cleric, chaplain, padre, father, ecclesiastic, man of god, man of the cloth, churchman, preacher verbˈpastərˈpæstər [with object] Be pastor of (a church or congregation) 做（教堂或圣会的）牧师 he pastored Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto 他在帕洛阿尔托的半岛圣经教会做过牧师。 no object he continued to study law while pastoring in Chicago 他在切尔西做牧师的时候还继续学习法律。 Example sentencesExamples In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations. I think he is much more concerned with how I am loving my neighbors, caring for the sick, and pastoring the church in a way that honors Him. I am a licensed Vineyard pastor, pastoring an American Baptist church on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. In 1959 Andrew was ordained as a minister and has served the Lord faithfully in different ministries, pastoring churches in Mexico and Texas. I have pastored churches all through Neshoba County for over fifty years. I have never pastored large congregations nor preached to great numbers of people. Her great-grandfather pastored that congregation. He pastored small churches in Kentucky for over fifty-seven years - from the time that he commenced studies at Southern. He graduated in 1931 and pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, before returning to preach at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church. Having pastored churches in both Wetaskiwin and Steinbach, let me state my opinions based upon my experience. I pastored a church in England back in the '80s, moved back to the States at the end of the '80s and my brother had been doing children's theatre. As a young adult, I was involved in pastoring churches full time and part time in Michigan and Kansas City. After attending Mercer University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he pastored churches in both the North and the South between 1903 and 1917. He has pastored churches in Northern California and Oregon but we moved back to retire here, our home. So we came here and he's now pastoring the little church in the neighborhood,’ Jason said as he took a sip of his cocoa. Yet, only 9 percent of these ordained women were pastoring churches. In the last two years of his life, he became a Presbyterian, pastoring a church in Westchester, Pennsylvania. And the women who pastored churches in the Southern Baptist Convention make up 1/10 of one percent. She graduated from New Brunswick last May and is pastoring Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brookyln, New York. Prior to this he had pastored churches in Gloucestershire and Bedfordshire. Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pastour, from Latin pastor ‘shepherd’, from past- ‘fed, grazed’, from the verb pascere.
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