The model of his character was a lay priest and even Protestant.

Clerics and bishops couldn't preach, with only lay priests allowed to operate, so long as they were registered with the government.

Instead he worked as a lay priest and as a senior clerk for a shipping line.

Married lay priests have their own kinds of music, performed at various rituals.

Environmentalists are the lay priests of a different gospel that can help save us.

At an early age he became a page at the Tōfuku-ji (temple) in Kyōto and, later a lay priest.

In 1593 he became a Buddhist lay priest, taking the name "Sekishūsai Songon".

In 1482 Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull which granted the village the right to hire a lay priest.

Since 1848 it was operated by the Canton of Valais, and until 1990 the rector was a lay priest.

He was later ordained a lay priest in the Sōtō tradition.