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January 26, 2025
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can you claim employment for clergy if, you are paid as a children's pastor but are not ordained?

  • January 26, 2025
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    January 26, 2025

    No, the IRS definition requires that you are ordained: 

     

    "Ministers are individuals who are duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed by a religious body constituting a church or church denomination. Ministers have the authority to conduct religious worship, perform sacerdotal functions, and administer ordinances or sacraments according to the prescribed tenets and practices of that church or denomination."  Ministers defined.