Ministry

Ministry may refer to:

  • Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister
    • Albanian ministries
    • Canadian ministries
    • The Ministry, also known as the Aireacht, the cabinet of the government established by the revolutionary Irish Republic of 1919–1922
  • Ministry (government department), a department of a government

In music and entertainment:

  • Ministry (band), an industrial metal band
  • Ministry of Darkness, a professional wrestling faction
  • Ministry of Sound, a nightclub in London

Ministry of Communication, a marketing agency in Albania

In religion:

  • Christian ministry, activity by Christians to spread or express their faith
    • Minister (Christianity), particularly ordained ministry
    • Ordination, resulting in "ordained ministry" or simply "the ministry"
  • Ministry of Jesus
  • Ministry (magazine), a magazine for pastors published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church

In fiction:

  • Ministry of Magic, in the Harry Potter series

Famous quotes containing the word ministry:

    “the eave-drops fall
    Heard only in the trances of the blast,
    Or if the secret ministry of frost
    Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
    Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
    —Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)