(c.700-c.787) Anglo-Saxon monkMonk Member of male religious community, missionaryMissionary Someone sent out to share religious faith., pilgrimPilgrim 1. In the New Testament and Christian thought, someone engaged in the Christian journey through life towards heaven. 2. Someone who journeys to holy places (such as biblical sites or shrines of the saints) to seek God's help, to give thanks, or as an act of penance and bishopBishop Bishops exercised pastoral care over a diocese and authority to confirm and ordain.