pastor

Etymology

From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.

noun

1. (now rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
2. Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
3. (Protestantism) A minister or priest in a church.
4. (Roman Catholicism, US) The main priest serving a parish.
5. A bird, the rosy starling.
   Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys. 1944, Country Life, volume 95, page 820

verb

1. (Christianity, transitive, intransitive, stative) To serve a congregation as pastor
   As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office. January 21 2009, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times