Lector

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A lector, in Latin, is a broad definition for a person who reads, aloud or not. It is also a specific title, not translated in many languages as English (but in French for example Lecteur), in various uses :

Academic

teaching office
lector jubilate is a title, equivalent to Doctor of Divinity (e.g. at the Catholic university of Leuven=Louvain)

Ecclesiastical

liturgic function, also performed by laymen, of reading to the congregation: mainly the epistle, but not the evangile (reserved for the Celebrant; an exception may be made for other parts in the role-play reading on Palm Sunday when lacking another priest), the devotional prayers and various other texts (generally not part of the prescribed liturgy)
Reader (minor orders)

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