Sexton

Noun

 * 1) A church official who looks after a church and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

Synonyms

 * sacristan

Thesaurus
Bible clerk, Bible reader, acolyte, almoner, anagnost, beadle, bedral, capitular, capitulary, choir chaplain, churchwarden, clerk, deacon, deaconess, elder, elderman, embalmer, funeral director, gravedigger, lay elder, lay reader, lector, lecturer, mortician, parish clerk, precentor, reader, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, shames, sidesman, succentor, suisse, teaching elder, thurifer, undertaker, verger, vergeress

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: sacristain
 * German:, Küsterin


 * Greek: νεωκόρος, εκκλησάρης
 * Norwegian: klokker
 * Russian: церковный сторож
 * Turkish:

Cardinal number

 * 1)  sixteen

Related terms

 * sextonde
 * sextondel