Celebrant
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) One who performs a public religious rite; - applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(or celebrating priest) is the priest who makes the oblation and consecrates the holy Eucharist; so called to distinguish him from the assisting priests or deacons.
