acolyte
1. [ noun ] (religion,Christianity,work) someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
Related terms: clergyman assistant holy_order thurifer altar_boy
Similar spelling:   aculeate
  aculeated
  acylation
  acold
  accolade