Ministerium
A ministerium is an association of clergy from various religious groups who come together to accomplish a specific purpose, often to build collegiality and to meet or address socioeconomic needs in the community. The represented churches, synagogues, and other congregations are often connected geographically, such as in a small town or group of small towns.
Sometimes the purpose can be to promote specific denominational objectives, rather than ecumenical. Such institutions are the Pennsylvania Ministerium, or . In some states the ministers, confined by denominational and territorial lines, formed a collegial body called the ministerium or spiritual ministerium in charge of supervising doctrine and teaching, clerical discipline and representing the clergy to the church administration.
