What's the difference between pastor and rector?

Pastor


Definition:

  • (n.) A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
  • (n.) A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (3) The evangelical pastor knew he faced an almighty task.
  • (4) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
  • (5) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
  • (6) Then Angela Merkel , daughter of an East German Protestant pastor, became Germany's first female chancellor on 22 November 2005.
  • (7) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
  • (8) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
  • (9) Merkel, whose father was a pastor in communist Eastern Germany , has suddenly discovered a deep affection for the downtrodden people of Greece.
  • (10) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
  • (11) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
  • (12) How much time should be spent on reviewing progress and achieving standards, compared to pastoral care?
  • (13) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
  • (14) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
  • (15) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
  • (16) These plans are a far cry from the desires of Atlah’s Rev David Manning, who became pastor of the church in 1981.
  • (17) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
  • (18) The son of a Congolese pastor, he trained as a gynaecologist and went on to treat thousands of women gang-raped during the DRC conflict , becoming a world expert in repairing vaginas.
  • (19) Pastoral systems must focus on effective management of grazing pressure of the rangelands.
  • (20) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.

Rector


Definition:

  • (n.) A ruler or governor.
  • (n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
  • (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
  • (n.) The head master of a public school.
  • (n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
  • (n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
  • (2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
  • (3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
  • (4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
  • (5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
  • (6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
  • (7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
  • (8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
  • (9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
  • (10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
  • (11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
  • (12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
  • (13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
  • (14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
  • (15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
  • (16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
  • (17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
  • (18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
  • (19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
  • (20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.