religious leader

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religious leader (plural religious leaders)

  1. Someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
  2. The leader of a religious order.
  3. In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.