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Recent Examples of chaplain
Williams was the football chaplain at Auburn University for 24 years, stepping into the role in 1999 after being appointed by then-head Auburn football coach — and now U.S. senator — Tommy Tuberville, according to a message honoring Williams from the Auburn University Athletics Department.
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Danielle Jennings, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
While many chaplains in public-safety agencies are volunteers, he is clinically trained as a professional chaplain.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2024
The authors also traced some of the history of this copy of The Aberdeen Breviary, including its use at one point by a rural chaplain at Aberdeen Cathedral, before a Scottish Catholic acquired it as a family heirloom.
—Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
He and his first wife had been married by a military chaplain.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Danielle Jennings, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
While many chaplains in public-safety agencies are volunteers, he is clinically trained as a professional chaplain.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2024
The authors also traced some of the history of this copy of The Aberdeen Breviary, including its use at one point by a rural chaplain at Aberdeen Cathedral, before a Scottish Catholic acquired it as a family heirloom.
—Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
He and his first wife had been married by a military chaplain.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
Noun
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The pastor at the church, Jose Cervantes, said the first fire refugees arrived at the church on Tuesday.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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The pastors, Max Lucado and Joakim Lundqvist, have been serving in the roles since last summer.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Jan. 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.—
Lauren Oyler,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2024
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The church is the spiritual home to about 500 families, according to the church's rector, the Rev. Bruce Freeman.—
Sarah Ventre,
NPR,
12 Jan. 2025
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Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Nov. 2024
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
30 Sep. 2024
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Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.—
Yvonne Zipp,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Sep. 2024
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
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With the source of the Nile running through the city, the area attracts tourists who come to raft the river’s rapids and bungee jump over the water, and houses international charity organizations and missionaries that want to set up outside the snarled traffic of Kampala.—
Greg Presto,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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And thanks to another papal missionary, Augustine of Canterbury, the early Celtic church in England, adopted Roman Christian practice in the seventh century.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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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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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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