noun (n)

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship(noun.person)

  Synonym:
  curate, minister, minister of religion, pastor, rector
  

  source: wordnet30
• A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.(noun)

  source: webster1913