The Best Fictional Pastors on TV, Ranked

Television has a complicated relationship with clergy. For every textured portrait of faith, there are three snake oil salesmen and a guy in a too-tight collar who’s about to ruin Christmas. The pastor character occupies a unique dramatic space — morally legible enough to anchor an audience, but with enough institutional power to become genuinely dangerous.From doomsday cults to megachurches to a Sopranos dinner table that no priest should have stayed at this long, here are the fictional p