Ecclesiastic /(?; 277)/

Ec·cle·si·as·tic

Ecclesiastic

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.

Ecclesiastic

n.
  1. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
    From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church.