Most of our ancient titles derive from astrology and have carried over into religion and govt which were the same thing for many centuries and still is in places like the Middle East and South Asia. Cleric is the same word as clerk for example and derives from a time when religious clerics ran fulfilled those particular governmental functions.

Minister comes from "min" or moon and "ster" or star. If it ever meant a servant outside of a public servant (which is really a master) it would only be because a later solar cult displaced and degraded it. Magister or "Great in the stars" as in great in reading them--a black-robed magi. He was Old Father Time--the Judge. Saturn was imaged as an old man because it was the slowest moving planet observable to the ancient peoples. So The magistrate symbolized Saturn. The minister at a church still carries this symbolism forth by his collar--the ring of Saturn. Saturn's representative on earth. Even though Christianity is a solar religion, it carries forth much of the symbols of the earlier lunar and stellar cults which all held great sway at one time.

Same with deacon--same as decan which was used in astrology. His job, originally for time-keeping purposes, was to watch for when the decan constellations rose which was every 10 days and hence the term "decan". In modern Christianity, he is a "cleric."

Same with the sexton--the cleric who rings the bell and digs the graves and so on. Why should his title have anything to do with the number 6? Because at one time his job was to go outside and take a reading of various celestial bodies for time-keeping purposes and the device he used was an adjustable graduated 6th of a circle which we call a sextant.

The Catholic Church has the title of cardinal, why? For the cardinall points of the zodiac--the two solstices and equinoxes. They surround the pope who represents the sun. These particular days were considered hinges of the year and cardinal is Latin for hinge. Their red robes verify that the sun shines on them--that is, they are near the pope and receive some measure of his authority.

Bishop derives from vishnu, the god who rose from the mouth of a great fish (sound familiar?). He is the priest of the piscean cult--of Jesus Christ and he wears the mitre hat which is really a fish-head in honor of Oannes, the fish-man who came from the sea to teach humans and who was depicted a man wearing a fish skin. Today we call Oannes the fish-man by Christianized name of John the Baptist. Born 6 months before Jesus, according to the gospel story, he was on the exact opposite side of the zodiac so that with he and Jesus together, the year is complete--the waning and waxing halves, as they are called.

Now, you'll read that "bishop" comes from "bisceop" and shares the same root as "episcopus" and yet look at the latter word. Pisces is hidden inside it!!