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What is a rector?

What is a rector? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
  2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
  3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
  4. A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.
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Churchgoers have welcomed a new team rector to Anglican churches in Bacup and Stacksteads.
The university rector is asked to form a team of Papuan intellectuals to start the process.
The Reverend William Matheus, another member, was assistant rector at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, a bulwark of progressive social causes.
This defiance is surely what appealed to the Glasgow students who voted him rector.
In May 1596 he was appointed rector to East Hoathly and the same year sermonized there on the Book of Ruth.
That was what he told the students of Edinburgh University in his inaugural address as their rector.

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