celebrant vs minister

celebrant

noun
  • A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist. 

  • A person who is celebrating something. 

  • A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals. 

minister

noun
  • A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. 

  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. 

  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service). 

  • In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador. 

verb
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service. 

  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship 

How often have the words celebrant and minister occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )