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A pastor is a leader of Christian community or congregation who gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation and act as the leader of each member of that community. Being the leader of a community the person should meet the biblical characteristics and also have enough awareness about him in terms of abilities, the way of thinking, capabilities etc. Spiritual intelligence helps us to be creative, alter situation and modify rules. It gives a clear idea about how to play with the boundaries which we have. It is a higher dimension of intelligence that activates the qualities and capabilities of the authentic self (or the soul), in the form of wisdom, compassion, integrity, joy, love, creativity and peace. Metacognition refers to the process to plan, monitor and asses ones understanding and performance. The data was collected from 63 participants (31 Non-Ordinated Pastors and 32 Ordinated Pastors) across the state of Kerala. The Spiritual Intelligence Self- report inventory was developed by David B King in 2009 was used to assess the level of Spiritual Intelligence and the Metacognition inventory was developed by Dr. Punitha Govil in 1971 was used to assess the level of metacognition among the participants of the study. The data represented normal distribution, hence Independent Sample t test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation is used for statistical analysis. The result revealed that there is significant difference in the level of Spiritual intelligence among Non-Ordinated Pastors and Ordinated Pastors and there is no significant difference in the level of Metacognition among Non-Ordinated Pastors and Ordinated Pastors. The level of Spiritual Intelligence is positively correlated to the level of Metacognition among Non-Ordinated Pastors and Ordinated Pastors.