priest
person who consecrates his life to some divinity and whose main functions are to direct religious rites and offer sacrifices to the divinity (for a minister use Q1423891)
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Summary
priest is a religious figure[1]. priest ranks in the top 10% of religious figure entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,195 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: organization[3]
- Subclass of: clergyman[4]
- Commons category: Priests[5]
- Field of this occupation: priesthood[6]
- Said to be the same as: clergyman[7]
- Honorific prefix: Reverend[8], Rabbi[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Priests[10]
- Commons gallery: Priest[11]
- ISCO-88 occupation class: 2460[12]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[13], Vlastenský slovník historický[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox priest[21]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Priest[22]
- Different from: minister[23], rabbi[24], monk[25], presbyter[26], Christian minister[27], priestess[28], Reverend[29], Catholic priest[30], Latin Catholic priest[31], Father[32], Q140353563[33]
- Female form of label: kněžka[34], priesteres[35], prästinna[36], ιέρεια[37], priestess[38], prêtresse[39], duhovnica[40], pastrino[41], jikultan[42], sacerdotino[43], sacerdotessa[44], sacerdotisa[45], כהנת דת[46], Priisterin[47]
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Influence
Things named for priest include The Priest[48], a film[49], directed by Vladimir Khotinenko[50] and rue des Prêtres-Saint-Séverin[51], a street[52], in France[53].
Why It Matters
priest has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] priest is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]
Entities named for priest include The Priest[48], a film[49], directed by Vladimir Khotinenko[50] and rue des Prêtres-Saint-Séverin[51], a street[52], in France[53].