pastorate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pas=tor=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

pastorate, n. [Cf. F. pastorat. See Pastor.].

 The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pastorate, n.
1 the office or tenure of a pastor.
2 a body of pastors.

THESAURUS

pastorate

abbacy, administration, apostleship, archbishopric, archdeaconry, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, auspices, bishopdom, bishopric, call, canonicate, canonry, cardinalship, care, care of souls, chaplaincy, chaplainship, charge, church house, clergy house, curacy, cure, custodianship, custody, deaconry, deaconship, deanery, deanship, episcopacy, episcopate, glebe, governance, government, guardianship, guidance, hands, holy orders, jurisdiction, keeping, management, manse, ministry, oversight, parsonage, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorship, patronage, prebend, prebendaryship, prelacy, prelateship, prelature, presbyterate, presbytery, priesthood, priestship, primacy, protectorship, rabbinate, rectorate, rectorship, rectory, sacred calling, safe hands, stewardship, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, tutelage, vicarage, vicariate, vicarship, vocation, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing