Meaning of religious leader | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“A group of religious leaders in Somaliland is behind an attempt to replace a progressive sexual offences law passed in 2018 with a revised version that protects rapists rather than survivors and allows child marriage.”

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