Pastoress vs. Pastor — What's the Difference?

A female pastor person who tends to a flock

A pastor (abbreviated as "Pr" or "Ptr" {singular}, or "Ps" {plural}), is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, pastors are always ordained.

A female pastor minister or priest of a Christian church

A Christian minister or priest having spiritual charge over a congregation or other group.

A layperson having spiritual charge over a person or group.

(Archaic) A shepherd.

To serve or act as pastor of.

A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.

Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people

(Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.

The main priest serving a parish.

A bird, the rosy starling.

To serve a congregation as pastor

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

A person authorized to conduct religious worship

Only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus