lay reader

1. 1.

   a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church

   Broaderlayman

Questions about lay reader

What does lay reader mean?

lay reader means "a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church".

Is lay reader a common word?

lay reader is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.