JW Labels and Titles

XBEHERE

Bottom to top:

-Governing Body incl. zone overseers, service, writing, etc commitee members

-Given ones/Bethel Heavies

-District Overseer

-Circuit Overseer

-City Overseer (though only good on paper)

-PO

-The rest of the service committee

-WT Conductor, TMS Overseer, Bookstudy Overseer

-The elders without one of the above assignments

-MS

-Pioneers

-Aux Pioneers

-Strong Publishers

-Misses a few meetings here and there publishers

-Inactive publishers

-DF/DA

Then of course there are subcategories to many of the above. If you are an elder, member of the Service committee and a bethelite or pioneer then your "stock" goes up. If you are an MS and also a bethelite or pioneer then in some cases you may be even more "famous" then some elders without one of the big assignments. Anymore you can think of?

For a religion that touts itself to be fully christian,clergy class free and non discriminatory they sure do like to categorize people. Its quite an oppressive social structure in the WT and its all based on working or your salvation despite the bible saying that life is a "gift from god"

fokyc

-City Overseer (though only good on paper)

Not the one I knew, he was regularly in the sack with my daughter-in-law, 10 years before anyone would believe it and take action!

fokyc

OnTheWayOut

Here's part of your list with some others squeezed in

-The elders without one of the above assignments

Book Study assistant (reader and also visits members with the overseer on shepherding visits

-MS

-Pioneers

Brothers with privileges in the congregation (to handle work assignments- microphones, literature, reading)

-Aux Pioneers

Vacation Pioneers, Those who use vacations to auxilary or go to unassigned territory

-Strong Publishers

Regular Publishers

Unbaptized Publishers

Approved associates

-Misses a few meetings here and there publishers

Bible Students

Irregular Publishers

Interested ones

-Inactive publishers

-DF/DA

XBEHERE

He must have been well connected. Typically City Overseers are used as "Fixers and cleaners" by the society and CO's but many I knew were washed out elders who couldn't do anything else so the CO threw them a bone.

sir82

Somewhere on this site (we need a search feature!) from 4 or 5 years ago there is a post by Farkel with something like 80 or 90 levels of the JW hierarchy - it includes the levels you posted here plus dozens more, like unbelieving mates who attend meetings, Memorial-only attenders, etc.

It's quite funny - and eye-opening as well for any who buy into the "we're all brothers" spiel.

blondie

What about

Special Pioneers

Missionaries

Approved WT Readers

Approved Book study readers

Mike handlers

#2 talk givers

#4 talk givers

Approved sisters handling meetings for service

Elders wives

MS wives

There used to be a list by Prominent Bethelite that had the status from GB down to the lowliest unbaptized sister.

Blondie

XBEHERE

Yes there are many.. as your responses have shown already. My list was geared towards the average cong. in my area I suppose.

Mary

I did a thread a couple of years ago about the social structure within the congregation itself. For a religion that claims there is no heiarchy, there certainly seems to be quite the ladder for everyone to climb.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/86425/1.ashx

blondie

UPDATED LIST OF WATCHTOWER "RANKS" (not CLASSES!)

1 Less Senile Man Who 'Specially Advises' The President of the WTBTS
2 The President of the Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses
3 Jehovah God [As WTBTS President interprets/'explains' all... ]
4 Charles Taze Russell, occasionally The Faithful & Discreet Slave
5 Michael=Jesus, Satan [Jesus/Satan oddly confusable in WTBTS literature]
6 Other Governing Body Member (White)
7 Other more submissive Archangel
8 Writing Staff Member
9 Common or Garden Angel/Spirit
10 Other Committee head
11 Higher-Up Biblical Prophet (e.g. "Moses" Class)
12 Other Governing Body Member (Black or servile)
13 Prominent Bethelite
14 Biblical Prophet (e.g. "Ezekiel" Class)
15 Other Committee Member
16 Male Biblical "Honorable Mention" (e.g. "David" Class)
17 Branch Overseer
18 District Overseer
19 Circuit Overseer
20 City Overseer
21 Presiding Overseer
22 Elder with influence
23 Common or Garden Bethelite
24 Male Anointed One (active) ("Anointed Remnant" Class)
25 Common or garden Elder
26 Ministerial Servant
27 Male Special Pioneer
28 Male Pioneer
29 Male Auxiliary Pioneer
30 Male Anointed One (less active)
31 Male Alleged Anointed One
32 Male Dead Anointed One
33 Male Regular Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
34 Male Irregular Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
35 Male Inactive Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
36 Male Dead Publisher
37 Female Biblical "Honorable Mention" (Ruth Class, HIGHEST for a Female)
38 Female Anointed One (active)
39 Female Anointed One (less active)
40 Female Alleged Anointed One
41 Female Dead Anointed One
42 Female Special Pioneer
43 Female Pioneer
44 Female Auxiliary Pioneer
45 Female Regular Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
46 Female Irregular Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
47 Female Inactive Publisher (but if non-JW spouse, lower)
48 Female Dead Publisher
49 jW with suspected "worldly leanings" (or who forgets to dress per code)
50 jW with at least one DF/DA relative (if they misbehave, becomes a C-59)
51 Marked jW
52 Reproved jW
53 Male unbaptized Associate
54 Female unbaptized Associate
55 Male child of jW (sub-Class rank depends on Congregational Rank of Pop)
56 Female child of jW (sub-Class rank depends on Rank of Pater)
57 Male child of unbaptized Associate
58 Female child of unbaptized Associate; Dead unbaptized associate/family
59 "Spiritually Weak" jW; Dead non-jW who never heard the message; Hitler
60 jW known to have "Apostate Leanings", Other Dead;Mother Teresa (dogmeat)
61 Male householder starting a Bible Study
62 Female householder starting a Bible Study; any who paid for literature
63 Other Male adult (Catholics, Beardeds and Smokers at the bottom)
64 Other Submissive Female adult (ditto); Rapist [subject to Flicker Light]
65 Other Male Child
66 Idiot, Infidel or Lunatic
67 Other Female Child
68 Co-operative & submissive & clean non-jW Spouse of jW (Male higher)
69 One suspected of "running ahead of Jehovah" (never forgivable)
70 Co-operative & submissive non-jW Close Family of jW (Male much higher)
71 Non-human animals (snakes and bottom-feeding pond scum excepted)
72 Householder (either sex) who has politely said "not interested"
73 Householder (either sex) who has said "get lost"
74 Householder (either sex) who has offended (marked for early destruction)
75 Householder (either sex) who set household pet on jW (likewise)
76 Internet User or Child-Molester (unless Elder, in which case can be OK)
77 Unsubmissive Female; Demon
78 Unco-operative or unsubmissive or unclean non-jW Spouse of jW
79 Unco-operative or unsubmissive non-jW Family of jW
80 Formally Disassociated One
81 Bottom-feeding Pond Scum
82 Informally Disassociated One
83 Serpent
84 Living Mass-Murderer; Trinitarian (if different)
85 Masturbator, Homosexual [taught as basically the same thing]
86 One said to be pending J.C. [to jW this means not Jesus!] proceedings
87 Opposer who was never associated
88 jW who accepts Blood Transfusion
89 Clergyman, other Harlot
90 Opposer who had been associated
91 Pope, other Great Whore; George Orwell
92 Disfellowshipped One (unless lower still)
93 Shunned One (unless lower still)
94 Member of "Swine" Class (unless of even lower rank)
95 Vomit-Eating Dog, Apostatized One (Watters-Penton-Reed Class)
96 Member of "Evil Slave" Class (e.g. Ray Franz Class)
97 Demonized One (e.g. Feuerbacher-Bergman-Raines-JanG-JH Class)
98 One who Attempts to Tape-Record Judicial Committee proceedings
99 Wicked Demonized One (e.g., W.F.Salter-Focus-Farkel-Steinhaug-Kotwal-Hovland Class)
100Viprous Concealed-Apostatical One (e.g. Prominent Bethelite AntiType)

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/108928/2.ashx

(beware some of the thread is offensive)

Mary

I think ya made a mistake Blondie.....should #3 and #6 be switched around?

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