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ministerial

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ministerial

of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy

a priest conscientiously tending to his ministerial duties

Synonyms of ministerial

clerical, clerkly, pastoral, priestly, sacerdotal

Words Related to ministerial

evangelical (also evangelic), missionary

apostolic, canonical, diaconal, diocesan, episcopal, papal, patriarchal, pontifical

churchly, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

divine, holy, religious, sacramental

conventual, mendicant, monachal, monastic

caliphal, rabbinic (or rabbinical)

Antonyms of ministerial

lay, nonclerical, secular, temporal

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