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What is another word for officiants?

Pronunciation: [əfˈɪʃənts] (IPA)

Officiants, also known as celebrants, are individuals who perform weddings, funerals, and other ceremonies. They are often equipped with the necessary knowledge and legal authority to oversee and officiate the event. Some other synonyms for officiants include ministers, priests, clerics, pastors, rabbis, and imams. These individuals often occupy positions of authority within their respective religious communities, and they are responsible for providing spiritual support and guidance to their congregations. Additionally, secular alternatives to religious officiants include justices of the peace, civil celebrants, and non-denominational ministers. Regardless of the context, officiants play a vital role in ensuring that important life events are carried out in a meaningful, respectful, and dignified manner.
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Contrary to what takes place in Paris, where the censer, swung before the altar, sounds against its chains, and is like the clear tinkling of a horse which, as he lifts his head, shakes his curb and bit, the censer at La Trappe remained immovable before the altar, and smoked by itself behind the officiants.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
This merit is then formally transferred by the officiants to some special object, such as the peace of the dead or the prosperity of a living suppliant.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot
They insist not so much on particular doctrines and rites as on the principle that whatever the doctrine, whatever the rite, they must be the teachers and officiants.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot

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  • How can there be a religion which has no rigid dogmas demanding belief on pain of eternal damnation, no theological postulates, even no fixed theology, no credo distinguishing it from antagonistic or rival religions? How can there be a religion which has no papal head, no governing ecclesiastic body, no church, chapel or congregational system, no binding religious form of any kind obligatory on all its adherents, no one administration and discipline? For the Hindu priests are mere ceremonial officiants without any ecclesiastical authority or disciplinary powers and the Pundits are mere interpreters of the Shastra, not the lawgivers of the religion or its rulers. How again can Hinduism be called a religion when it admits all beliefs, allowing even a kind of high-reaching atheism and agnosticism and permits all possible spiritual experiences, all kinds of religious adventures? The only thing fixed, rigid, positive, clear is the social law, and even that varies in different castes, regions, communities. The caste rules and not the Church; but even the caste cannot punish a man for his beliefs, ban heterodoxy or prevent his following a new revolutionary doctrine or a new spiritual leader.
    Sri Aurobindo

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