religious leader

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religious leader

noun religious leaders

Someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body. A group of religious leaders in Somaliland is behind an attempt to replace a progressive sexual offences law passed in 2018 with a revised version that protects rapists rather than survivors and allows child marriage.
The leader of a religious order.
In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.

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@misc{religious_leader_2026,
  title = {religious leader},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/religious%20leader},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}