No He didn't. Only through the corrupting of word meanings does the Catholic Church assign the name "priest". The truth is that the apostles called all believers "priests".
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood (hierateuma), a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
hierateuma - 2406 hieráteuma (from 2409 /hiereús, "priest") – priesthood. [http://biblehub.com/greek/2406.htm]
The Greek NEVER uses that word to describe the leadership other than the leadership of Christ.
“No He didn’t. Only through the corrupting of word meanings does the Catholic Church assign the name “priest”. The truth is that the apostles called all believers “priests”.”
And we are all priests - just as all of Israel was a priestly nation (Exodus 19:6). And none of that changed the fact that God had a select priesthood as well. He still does.
“The Greek NEVER uses that word to describe the leadership other than the leadership of Christ.”
It doesn’t have to. Christianity uses Greek, not Greek using Christianity.
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/where-in-the-new-testament-are-priests-mentioned
http://www.catholic.com/blog/tim-staples/is-there-a-new-covenant-ministerial-priesthood
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/PRIEST3.htm
http://www.catholic-convert.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/priesthood.pdf