ecclesiastic

noun

the consecration could only be performed by a high ecclesiastic:

clergyman, clergywoman, priest, churchman, churchwoman, man/woman of the cloth, man/woman of God, cleric, minister, preacher, chaplain, father;

divine, theologian;

bishop, pastor, vicar, rector, parson, (assistant) curate, deacon, deaconess;

Scottish kirkman;

French abbé, curé;

North American dominie;

informal reverend, padre, Holy Joe, sky pilot;

Australian, informal josser;

informal , derogatory Bible-basher, God-botherer.

adjective

two churchmen within the diocese hold the ecclesiastic title of vicar general:

priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastical, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral;

church, churchly, religious, spiritual, non-secular, non-temporal, holy, divine;

informal churchy;

rare sacerdotal.

ecclesiastic Oxford Dictionary of English