Rector

A ruler or governor.

A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.

A clergyman in charge of a parish.

The head master of a public school.

The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.

The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"