ostiarius

English Thesaurus

1. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church (noun.person)

hypernym	:	clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend,
definition	:	a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church (noun.person)

hypernym	:	holy order, order,
definition	:	(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy (noun.state)