Bajoran faith

• Centered around worship of the Prophets
  • Extradimensional, atemporal beings noted for continued interaction, protection, contact with the people of Bajor for the full span of its history
  • Direct, if abstract, communication to individuals provided through delivery of artifacts known as Orbs
• Largely expressed through global organized religion
• Divided into orders
  • Order of the Temple (DS9 Novel: Avatar, Book One)
• Distinct offices organized into a heavily structures heirarchy
  • Kai
    • Spiritual leader of Bajor, head of the Bajoran faith (DS9: "Emissary")
  • Vedek
    • Comprising the Vedek Assembly
      • Charged with electing the Kai when necessary (DS9: "The Collaborator")
  • Ranjen
  • Prylar