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Recent Examples of archbishop
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob will become the 12th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
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Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
The cathedral’s thunderous organ, its 8,000-pipes painstakingly restored and cleaned of toxic dust, will also respond to the archbishop’s invocation, with four organists playing a variety of melodies.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
World & Nation Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire
Nov. 29, 2024
In response to the archbishop’s door-knocks, the cathedral will erupt into song, its choirs once again filling the cavernous spaces.
—John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
The cathedral’s thunderous organ, its 8,000-pipes painstakingly restored and cleaned of toxic dust, will also respond to the archbishop’s invocation, with four organists playing a variety of melodies.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
World & Nation Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire
Nov. 29, 2024
In response to the archbishop’s door-knocks, the cathedral will erupt into song, its choirs once again filling the cavernous spaces.
—John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archbishop
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From political infighting among an international coterie of bishops, to nosy clerical gossiping, to Isabella Rossellini as a nun with ulterior motives, to car bombs, the movie — based on an airport novel of the same name by Robert Harris — is arguably overwrought and overstuffed, if endlessly fun.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
12 Jan. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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To the outside world, the selection of a new pope is a solemn and mysterious ritual that ends with white smoke emerging from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.—
Scott Tobias,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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History’s first Latin American pope was asked Sunday night about the Trump administration pledges of deportations during an appearance on a popular Italian talk show, Che Tempo Che Fa.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.—
Hannah Peart,
NBC News,
28 Oct. 2024
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The abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2024
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The prelate suggested that any rush toward legalizing civil divorce could undermine Filipino families – the foundational aspect of society, according to the country’s constitution.—
Mark Saludes,
The Christian Science Monitor,
9 Oct. 2024
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Archbishop José Gomez, the soft-spoken, hard-line prelate.—
Shelby Grad,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2024
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The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.—
David Tarrant,
Dallas News,
6 Apr. 2020
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In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations.—
Nicholas Rowan,
Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2020
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Chuck Goudie, Chicago media's dean of investigations, is no longer on the air at ABC7.—
Justin Kaufmann,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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Kimberly Dodd, dean of Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is an expert in outbreak response for emerging infectious diseases.—
Kimberly Dodd,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.—
Fr. Goran Jovicic,
National Review,
13 June 2021
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The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.—
Allie Gross,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Aug. 2017
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