subdeacon vs man of the cloth

subdeacon and man of the cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
subdeacon	Yes	No	No	No
man of the cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, man of the cloth is a hypernym of subdeacon; that is, man of the cloth is a word with a broader meaning than subdeacon:

subdeacon: a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
man of the cloth: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

Other hypernyms of subdeacon include clergyman, reverend, Holy Order, Order.

subdeacon (noun)	man of the cloth (noun)
a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church	a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church