church officer

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Wilson wrote about his wife, Martha White, whom he married in March 1867, and he described his job as a church officer and caretaker, earning $18 a month.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

Complained one former church officer: "Except for the sign on the bulletin board in front, you'd never know it was a Presbyterian church."

From Time Magazine Archive

"We furnished Mr. Bancroft with his material," said a prominent Mormon church officer to me.

From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander

By this he is made a church officer of the highest degree, being supreme in all causes, to whom ministers in the discharge of their ministry are subordinate.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

So true was this that the schoolmaster was, like the parson, a church officer.

From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch