Leader of church to revise church text (5)
I believe the answer is:
credo
'revise church text' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'leader of church to' is the wordplay.
'leader of' says to take the initial letters.
'to' becomes 'redo' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The first letter of 'church' is 'c'.
'c'+'redo'='CREDO'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for credo that I've seen before include "Faith - I believe" , "Mass movement" , "Part of the Latin Mass" , "Faith or belief" , "One's system of beliefs" .)