"governer" meaning in English

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          "text": "And oute of theſe caves and dennes are they called to be governers and curattes of chirches / when they ſeme to chouſe the beſt.",
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          "text": "Fynallye the holye ghoſte maye alſo be ſayde a cauſe of thys lybertye, foꝛaſmuche as he is the gouerner and pꝛeſeruer therof.",
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          "english": "The New Arcadia",
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          "text": "O wretched mankind (ſaid I then to my ſelfe) in whom witte (which ſhould be the gouerner of his welfare) becomes the traitor to his bleſſednes.",
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          "text": "And whẽ alſo he ſaieth, Of many, hereby is cõfirmed, that by the name of the church, wherof Chriſt ſpeaketh Mat. 18. is not vnderſtoode the cõmon multitude, but the chief governers of the church.",
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          "text": "And whẽ alſo he ſaieth, Of many, hereby is cõfirmed, that by the name of the church, wherof Chriſt ſpeaketh Mat. 18. is not vnderſtoode the cõmon multitude, but the chief governers of the church.",
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