Eastern lad having administered church without reverberation (9)

'reverberation' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'eastern lad having administered church without' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'eastern' could be 'e' and 'e' is located in the answer.
'lad' could be 'son' (lad can informally mean a young boy) and 'son' is found in the answer.
'administered' could be 'ran' (run can mean to administer or control) and 'ran' is present in the remaining letters.
'church' could be 'ce' (Church of England) and 'ce' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?