parson.

At last the company built a large, plain, attractive church, and the miners insisted on Job's being the "parson."

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

Old Amos declared, however, 'that there were a bit o' both in it, but he feared th 'chilt more than th' parson. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Vallington, who, on account of his intended profession, often went by the name of the "parson."

Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student Oliver Optic 1859