Confessor
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An ecclesiastic who receives auricular confessions of sins from persons under his spiritual charge, and pronounces absolution upon them. The secrets of the confessional are not privileged communications at common law, but this has been changed by statute in some states.
See 1 Greenl. Ev. §§ 247, 248.