Pastor

=== Lutheranism ===
The [[Church of Sweden]] has a threefold ministry of bishop, priest, and deacon and those ordained to the presbyterate are referred to as priests.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-02 |title=Ministry and Ministries |url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/ministry-and-ministries |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=www.svenskakyrkan.se |language=en}}</ref> In the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]], ordained presbyters are referred to by various publications, including Finnish ones, as pastors,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parishes |url=https://evl.fi/en/the-church/organisation/parishes/ |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Evl |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Women ordained for thirty years |url=https://evl.fi/en/current-issues/women-ordained-for-thirty-years/ |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Evl |language=en-GB}}</ref> or priests.<ref name="Sequeira2021">{{cite web |last1=Sequeira |first1=Tahira |title=Gallery: Turku makes history with first female bishop |url=https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/news-in-brief/18657-gallery-turku-makes-history-with-first-female-bishop.html |work=[[Helsinki Times]] |access-date=13 May 2021 |date=8 February 2021 |quote=Leppänen also became the first woman from the Conservative Laestadian movement (a revival movement within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland) to be ordained as a priest in 2012. The first female priests were ordained in Finland 32 years ago. |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327094618/https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/news-in-brief/18657-gallery-turku-makes-history-with-first-female-bishop.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Doe2011">{{cite book|last=Doe|first=Norman|title=Law and Religion in Europe|date=4 August 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|isbn=9780199604012|page=135|quote=In Finland, a priest of the Lutheran church is forbidden to reveal a secret received in confession and in the course of pastoral counselling; a similar rule applies to Orthodox priests.}}</ref> In the United States, denominations like the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]], use the terms reverend and pastor interchangeably for ordained members of the clergy, and the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America|Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)]], usually just uses pastor.