Harry and Christianity (was:Re: Banning the books/Request (Harry live or die?)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 159430

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> > montims:
> > I hadn't heard that, but strictly speaking, if that were the case, it would
> > be "minister" not "pastor", as she is Church of Scotland...
> 
> I thought the CoS were Presbyterians, who IIRC have pastors. (Church
> of Scotland is not Church of England.) I read about who uses what
> terms recently, but it was wikipedia, and incomplete at that.

Geoff:
Speaking as a Christian - and as a member of a Baptist Church,the normal 
usage in the UK is that Catholics refer to their "priest", Anglicansto their 
"vicar". 

In the Non-conformist churches such as the Baptists, Methodists, URC and 
Presbyterians, the tendency is to refer to the "mnister". "Pastor" is used in 
these churches in a very informal way. The word seems to be used formally 
more frequently in the independent evangelical churches.