curate

curate
    n 1: a person authorized to conduct religious worship;
         "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant
         churches" [syn: {curate}, {minister of religion},
         {minister}, {parson}, {pastor}, {rector}]
    

Curate \Cu"rate\ (k[=u]"r[asl]t), n. [LL. curatus, prop., one
   who is charged with the care (L. cura) of souls. See {Cure},
   n., and cf. {Cur['e]}]
   One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but
   now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
   --Hook.
   [1913 Webster]

         All this the good old man performed alone,
         He spared no pains, for curate he had none. --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]
    

CURATE, eccl. law. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, 
or20 vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine service in his 
stead. 
    

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "curate":
      DD, Doctor of Divinity, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, Holy Joe,
      abbe, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop,
      bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop,
      cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, churchman, clergyman,
      cleric, clerical, clerk, coadjutor, cure, dean, diocesan, divine,
      ecclesiarch, ecclesiastic, exarch, hierarch, high priest,
      man of God, metropolitan, military chaplain, minister, padre, papa,
      parson, pastor, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary,
      prelate, primate, rector, reverend, rural dean, servant of God,
      shepherd, sky pilot, subdean, suffragan, supply clergy,
      supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric,
      vicar