Category talk:Congregationalist clergy

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[edit] WP:CFD

This category was nominated for deletion, renaming, or merging with another category on 2007 September 16. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

It was something of a shame that the above renaning CFD did not pass. This article ought to be renamed to "Category:Congregationalist ministers" as congregationalist generally do not use the term clergy to describe ordained congregationalists. More generally, most Reformed Christians (ie presbyterians, congregationalists and some baptists) do not accept the distinction between laity and clergy. Furthermore, whilst the term "minister" can be ambiguous on its own (government or religious?) when it is qualified with "congregationalist", "of religion" or something else then the ambiguity is removed. Finally, I seem to remember that one of the British categories for exemption from jury service is "minister of religion" which suggests its appropriateness as general category term. Greenshed (talk) 18:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)