religious leader

English

Noun

religious leader (plural religious leaders)

  1. Someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
    • 2022 August 19, Yousef Timacade, “Religious backlash threatens Somaliland’s progressive rape law”, in openDemocracy‎[1], archived from the original on 31 August 2022:
      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.
  2. The leader of a religious order.
  3. In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.
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