acolyte has definitions from the fields of religion,Christianity,work
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[ noun ] (religion,Christianity,work) someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He had been a choir_boy at the Holy_Name_Cathedral and also served as an acolyte to Father_O_'_Brien .

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