In both the Catholic and Protestant branches...?

Question

In both the Catholic and Protestant branches, there are many different titles for the priests, like father, pastor, bishop, friar, etc. I don't know much about either of the branches' titles, so can u give me a list of each title in order for both sects?
Thank you so much!

Answer 1

Being a catholic I can be more specific in the answer for the first part:

From "lowest" to "highest" (some are ties too)
Deacon -> refered to as deacon ____
Friar or Monk -> called Brothers
Priests -> called "father ____"
Bishops -> called "your excellency"
Cardinals-> called "your eminance"
The Pope -> called "your holiness"
(naming conventions are flexible, no bishop is going to be crushed if you refer to him as "father ___")


For Protestants the distinction is a little more difficult. Certain branches have "priests" and "bishops" while others have pastors, ministers, deacons, elders, leaders, etc. By and large, most protestant ministers can safely be called "pastor ___"

Answer 2

Common Catholic titles will include father or priest for the common priests. If you speak of bishops, cardinals, etc., you are getting into the higher levels of the church. Frairs, brothers or monks would be of monastic orders.

Common Protestant titles will include pastor or minister. Deacons and elders usually refer to a member of the congregation serving in an authority position. Some Protestants use bishop to refer to higher positions in church government.

Answer 3

Most Protestants don't recognize priests, because they consider all believers to be priests.
A priest in the catholic Church is called "Father". The Anglicans do the same. (Although many of them do not acknowledge the term "priest" for the above reason).
The term "father" means spiritual father of the congregation. Evangelicals reallydo not like this term.
Pastor is a universal term, and means "shepherd". The person who leads and feeds the flock.
Bishop - from the term "overseer". In the catholic, Anglican, and Methodist churches, at least, the Bishop is a pastor of pastors. Baptists generally consider the term to be another descriptive term for the pastor or elder.
"Firar" means "brother", and applies to the monks.

Answer 4

Well there are titles of position and titles of address, which are different.

Some Protestant churches have bishops, and I believe such people are addressed as Bishop So and So

Episcopalian Protestants call their ministers "priests" and sometimes address the priests as "Father So and So" Episcopalians also speak of some people as "the Right Reverend, So and So" They also call priests vicars and curates. These titles are faily unique to Episcopalianism.

Other Protestants also have people in church leadership positions that are called elders and sometimes deacons, and even deaconesses.

By and large most Protestants refer to their church leaders as pastors and ministers. Such people are addressed as Pastor So and So, and also Reverend So and So.

In some Protestant churches it is a custom to refer to all members of the church as Brother So and So and Sister So and So.

In the Catholic Church, priests are addressed (in America) as Father So and So. However, a priest will refer to himself as Reverend So and So, because Father is a form of address and the priest doesn't address himself! I refer to my priest as Father X but when he writes a letter he signs it Reverend X.

In other Catholic countries, like Italy, priests are addressed as Dom or Don So and So - they do not use the word "Father" to address priests.

Some priests in America are addressed as Monsignor So and So, which is a special title granted to some priests by the Pope.

Catholics do not address priests as Pastor So and So, like Protestants address their ministers. Catholics do speak of their priests as pastors, but it is not used as a form of address. I would say "Father X is the pastor of my church" but I would not refer to him as "Pastor X"

Catholics also have deacons who are addressed as "Deacon so and so"

Monks and friars are addressed as "Brother so and so" unless they are also priests and then it is "Father so and so". Nuns are addressed as "Sister So and so" unless the nun is head of her community, and then she is addressed as "Mother so and so" (e.g. Mother Teresa).

There are lots of bishops in the Catholic Church, and they are addressed as Bishop So and So (usually just the last name). Archbishops are bishops who are in charge of an archdiocese - generally a very large and historically significant diocese. Then there are Cardinals, who are those who are allowed to elect the Pope. Nowadays all Cardinals are priests and most of them are also bishops, but technically any Catholic can be a Cardinal (even women). Cardinals have an interesting form of address in this country, where they are refered to as John Cardinal Smith instead of Cardinal John Smith. However "Cardinal Smith" is sometimes used. If John Smith is only a bishop or archbishop, then he is Bishop John Smith or Archbishop John Smith.

There are also other titles used among Eastern Rite Catholics such as Metropolitan and Patriarch for men in offices roughly equivalent to an archbishop or cardinal. Eastern Orthodox Christians have many of these titles too.

And then there's the Pope, of course.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Here's a great site with a lot of answers:

http://catholic.com/library/church_papacy.asp

God bless.