Difference between Official and Functionary

OFFICIAL vs FUNCTIONARY: NOUN

Someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
A worker who holds or is invested with an office
A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.
An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
One who holds an office or position, especially one who acts in a subordinate capacity for an institution such as a corporation or governmental agency.
A referee or umpire.
An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
One who is invested with an office of a public nature; one holding a civil appointment: as, a government official; a railway official.
In English ecclesiastical law, a person appointed as judge by a bishop, chapter, or archdeacon, to hear causes in the ecclesiastical courts.
One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

One charged with the performance of a function or office
One who holds an office or a trust: as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
One who holds an office or a trust or performs a particular function; an official.
A worker who holds or is invested with an office
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.

Having official authority or sanction
(of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
Of or relating to an office
Of or relating to an office or a post of authority.
Authorized by a proper authority; authoritative.
Holding office or serving in a public capacity.
Characteristic of or befitting a person of authority; formal.
Authorized by or contained in the US Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary. Used of drugs.
Verified officially
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopœia; appointed to be used in medicine. Cf. Officinal.
Discharging an office or function.
Approved by authority; authorized.
Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal

In pharm., authorized by the pharmacopœia of some country or countries: as, an official drug; an official preparation. In this sense recent, displacing the broader term officinal.
Of or pertaining to office or the performance of the duties of an office: as, official duty; official cares or responsibility.
Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; hence, authorized: as, an official statement or report.
Performing duties or offices; rendering useful service; ministering.

Staffer, Unofficial, Spokesman, Offical, Prescribed, Established, Regular, Ex officio, Authoritative, Formalized, Authorized, Formal, Semiofficial, Confirmed, Functionary

Politburo, Dignitary, Underling, Commissar, Politician, Flunky, Bigwig, Civil servant, Apparatchik, Bureaucrat, Functional, Employee, Officer, Servant, Official

Staffer, Unofficial, Spokesman, Offical, Prescribed, Established, Regular, Ex officio, Authoritative, Formalized, Authorized, Formal, Semiofficial, Confirmed, Functionary

Sycophant, Peon, Secretary, Politburo, Dignitary, Politician, Flunky, Bigwig, Civil servant, Bureaucrat, Functional, Employee, Officer, Servant, Official

Any or all data that does not match the official record or official list of inmates should be considered inaccurate.
Applicants who earned a GED must present official GED results and official transcripts or any partial high school completion.
One copy will need to be an official university transcript translated into English by an official translation agency.
Are test scores listed on an official high school transcript counted as official test results?
The notary public shall authenticate with the official seal all official acts.
Official Map Article IV of the MPC enables municipalities to prepare an official map.
Textbooks, official reports, academic articles, essays, business letters, contracts, official speeches.
Department designated by the Building Official as an Electrical Official.
In other countries, official government translators issue official translations.
Every applicant must submit official transcripts with the school seal stamp and official signature sent directly by a school official.

The healer is also a ritual functionary of some sort.
Every Communist functionary will be shot where he is found.
In Judaea this civil functionary was also military commander.
Are they in a senior or functionary position?
Functionary, is authorized to issue Caste certificates Std.
Taluk level functionary, is authorized to issue certificates.
Undertaking letter from the chief functionary of organization.
Memphis regulations was merely that of a functionary.
BCCI functionary and IPL Governing Council member said.
In a word, if the function calls out the functionary, it is because the functionary exists before the function.