noun
- a member of a vestry, especially a lay official who helps manage the temporal affairs of a parish church
Usage: ecclesiastical
Examples
- The vestryman was responsible for maintaining the church building.
- As a vestryman, he helped oversee the parish budget.
- The vestrymen met monthly to discuss church finances.
- She was elected as the first female vestryman in the parish’s history.
- The vestryman coordinated the church’s charity fundraising efforts.
- Each vestryman served a three-year term on the parish council.