That is called a pyx
The usual minister for a parish is a priest or bishop. In rare cases where there is a shortage of priests, a deacon or even lay Eucharistic minister may lead a prayer service and distribute communion that has been previously consecrated at a Mass by a priest.
According to recent Vatican directives, only ordained ministers (deacons, priests, bishops, etc.) are to purify the sacred vessels, including the ciboriums used to distribute the Eucharist. However, in practice, the priest may purify only the chalice and paten and will leave the ciboriums for the sacristan or Eucharistic ministers to purify.
Depends upon your definition of "minister'. The Catholic Church has many ministers. We have Eucharistic ministers who bring the Holy Eucharist (communion) to believers, ministers to the sick, the elderly, prisoners, the young, the needy, etc. We believe that ministry is not limited to the ordained. As the Good Samaritan, we are called upon to minister, help, everyone in need, We all can, and should be Christ's ministers. As one of our leaders once said "Christ has no hands but yours, no voice but yours, no physical presence but yours " (my recollection). We, his followers are all called upon to be ministers.
Protestant ministers do not receive Holy Orders and so as far as the Catholic Church is concerned are no more than laymen active in their particular ecclesial communion's organization.
No, There are female religious only in the Anglican or as we call it the Episcopal communion. There are female ministers or Priests and even some Bishops in this denomination now.
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Priests will be priests: belong to the clergy, ministers of a Christian Church.
There were no priests in Australia when the continent was first colonised. The British were from the Church of England. They did not have "priests" and they did not celebrate "mass" but they did have Holy Communion. There were two ministers aboard the First Fleet: Reverend Richard Johnson and Rev Samuel Marsden.
The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church are called Priests. The priest who heads a parish is also called a Pastor. The catholic church has extraordinary ministers such as the Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist. These are lay people who assist with giving communion.
The ordained ministries in the Catholic Church are deacons, priests and bishops. There are also other extraordinary ministers but they are not ordained. Am example would be a Eucharistic minister.
Yes. Buddhist priests, Hindu priests, Catholic priests, Protestant ministers, Muslim Imams...
Methodists call their clergymen ministers, instead of priests.