All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. Especially considering Catholicism.
Not quite; priests are supposed to have special magic powers unavailable to the laity (delivering blessings on God’s behalf; think communion, confession, etc.).
Protestant religious leaders, in contrast, are officially just regular folks who happen to choose preaching as a career. No magic powers, no special access to divinity.
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Yes, the magic sauce that has been passed on from bishop to bishop since St. Peter, and rationed out to priests on consecration.
It’s often hard to tell whether the word “priest” refers to that.
In the general sense, the word includes clergy of all religions, not just Christians.
And in Catholic-dominated Austria, we are happy to refer to Lutheran pastors as “Priester”, and I hear in some Lutheran-dominated parts of Germany, they tend to refer to Catholic parish priests as “Pastor”.
Catholic, Orthodox and Episcopalian churches have all inherited their share in that magic sauce, Protestants have rejected it. And that’s by definition; post-1054 schisms that keep the tradition of the magic sauce are by definition referred to as Episcopalian.
So, given that “Catholic Priest” and “Episcopalian Priest” are categories of their own, all the remaining “Priests” on the list are, by definition, “Orthodox Priests”. Why not say so?
Also, being a “Catholic Priest” is not a career, it’s just having received the magic sauce. The various jobs that a priest might have are technically referred to by different names. And according to Martin Luther, all Christians are priests.
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