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Pope Francis was a great Christian pastor (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (74 children)

Can someone explain for the non-religious folk?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (7 children)

"Pastor" is the term for the person that leads a church / church congregation. The general ranking of the hierarchy is:

Deacon (not yet a priest, are usually all volunteer, but can do some ceremonies)
Pastor or priest (ordained, usually employed by the Church itself, they're allowed to hold all ceremonies and conduct mass or church service)
Bishop (management level, must be 35, must be a priest for 5 years)
Archbishop (oversee multiple churches and run the archdiocese; there's 196 in the US. Wyoming has a single archdiocese)
Cardinal (upper management, only cardinals are allowed to vote on new popes)
Lastly - Pope. The man at the top, there's only one.

J.D. Vance is Catholic, and referred to the Pope as a 'pastor'. This would be like somebody saying "(insert American President) was a good mayor".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

there's only one.

unless

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yea yea there's some schismatics out there that claim to be the "actual" pope but there hasn't really been an anti-pope since 1449.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

But there was pope emeritus

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