member of the clergy

C21178
concept

A member of the clergy is an individual formally ordained or authorized by a religious tradition to lead worship, perform sacred rites, provide spiritual guidance, and represent the faith community.

All labels observed (20)

Label Occurrences
church leader 14
member of the clergy canonical 7
apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 4

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: member of the clergy
Generated description
A member of the clergy is an individual formally ordained or authorized by a religious tradition to lead worship, perform sacred rites, provide spiritual guidance, and represent the faith community.

Instances (49)

Instance Via concept surface
Gregory Tsamblak church leader
Septa clergy member
Bonifaci Ferrer churchman
Aymer of Lusignan
Church of England clergy religious officeholder
Della Reese ordained minister
Sahak Partev church leader
John’s son Euthymius church leader
William Smith Latter Day Saint apostle
Franklin D. Richards apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Andrew of Crete church father
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise
Mr. Collins Clergyman
Exarch Antim I church leader
Robert Sandeman church leader
Tyrannius Rufinus church father
Saint Theodosius of Kyiv church leader
Heber C. Kimball apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wilford Woodruff apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Rector of All Saints, Lichfield parish rector
John of Savoy, Bishop of Geneva
Rob Bell former pastor
Guli Francis-Dehqani
Giovanni de' Medici (cardinal)
Parley P. Pratt Latter Day Saint apostle
Henry B. Eyring apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jacques-Nicolas Colbert member of clergy
Downing College Chaplain chaplain
Thomas Chalmers church leader
Satradhikar ecclesiastical leader
Maurice Suckling naval chaplain
Mr. Elton is the vicar of Highbury
surface form: Mr. Elton
Clergyman
Friederike Fliedner religious worker
Nerses Shnorhali church leader
Henry Tilney Clergyman
Delloreese Patricia Early ordained minister
John Marshall Lang church leader
Southern Baptist missionaries religious worker
Louis René Édouard de Rohan
Nakchhong religious_officiant
Charles Price Jones church leader
Lambertus Alting church leader
Volker Jung church leader
Foigard clergyman in fiction
John J. McAuliffe
Rose Hudson-Wilkin chaplain
Ordinary of the Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe church leader
Thomas Sharp (Archdeacon of Northumberland) churchman
Gregory Peter XV Agagianian church leader