[f. CO- + PASTOR.] A joint pastor; a colleague in the pastoral office.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 510. Dr. Priestley … was elected in 1755 copastor to Mr. John Meadows.
1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, § 580. In the saying of Rowland Hill to his co-pastor Theophilus Jones.
Hence Co-pastorate, joint pastorate of a church.
1881. National Baptist, XVII. 740. With us, co-pastorates or assistant-ministries do not work well.
1885. Manch. Weekly Times, 23 May, 5/3. Invited to occupy the chair of Hebrew at the Regent’s Park College, London, and to take the co-pastorate of Bloomsbury Chapel.
