duly ordained minister of religionmeans a person who has been ordained, in accordance with the ceremonial, ritual, or discipline of a church, religious sect, or organization established on the basis of a community of faith and belief, doctrines and practices of a religious character, to preach and to teach the doctrines of such church, sect, or organization and to administer the rites and ceremonies thereof in public worship, and who as his regular and customary vocation preaches and teaches the principles of religion and administers the ordinances of public worship as embodied in the creed or principles of such church, sect, or organization.
Government agencymeans any department, agency, independent establishment, or corporation in the Executive branch of the United States Government.
personmeans any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, or other form of business organization.
regular minister of religionmeans one who as his customary vocation preaches and teaches the principles of religion of a church, a religious sect, or organization of which he is a member, without having been formally ordained as a minister of religion, and who is recognized by such church, sect, or organization as a regular minister.
sistermeans a brother of the whole blood or a sister of the whole blood, as the case may be.