page_title: Lay preacher
hierarchical_section_title: Lay preacher
caption_attribution_description: Haugianerne
context_page_description: Lay Preacher is a preacher or a religious proclaimer who is not a formally ordained cleric. Lay preaching varies in importance between religions and their sects. Although Lay Preachers in many Christian denominations may be accorded titles such as Reverend as a courtesy by people - including those in their congregation - it is only once a priest, cleric, minister or reverend has been ordained that he/she can correctly adopt that title.
  Movements which encourage Lay Preachership include:
  Awakening
  Methodist local preacher
  Lay speaker
  Lay reader
  Plymouth Brethren
  Lay ecclesial ministry, see also Bo Sanchez and Hippolytus Guarinonius
  The United Reformed Church
  Unitarian & Free Christian Lay Preacher
context_section_description: Lay Preacher is a preacher or a religious proclaimer who is not a formally ordained cleric. Lay preaching varies in importance between religions and their sects. Although Lay Preachers in many Christian denominations may be accorded titles such as  Reverend as a courtesy by people - including those in their congregation - it is only once a priest, cleric, minister or reverend  has been ordained that he/she can correctly adopt that title. 
  Movements which encourage Lay Preachership include:
  Awakening (Lutheran movement, especially see Hans Nielsen Hauge, Paavo Ruotsalainen, and lay preachers organized by Lars Levi Laestadius)
  Methodist local preacher
  Lay speaker (United Methodist Church)
  Lay reader (Anglican communion)
  Plymouth Brethren
  Lay ecclesial ministry (Catholic), see also Bo Sanchez and Hippolytus Guarinonius
  The United Reformed Church (England)
  Unitarian & Free Christian Lay Preacher (Great Britain)
caption: A Lay Preacher at a nineteenth-century Haugean conventicle.
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