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Recent Examples of clergyman
Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
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Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After the overthrow of the monarchy, Iranians voted in huge majorities for an explicitly Islamic republic and for a constitution that placed a clergyman, Khomeini, at its apex.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Given that Quisling came from a family with four generations of clergymen, his conversations with Olsen provide fascinating philosophical duels in New Testament understanding.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
Among the types of influencers listed as possible collaborators are actors, politicians, media representatives, activists, and clergymen.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
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Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
After the overthrow of the monarchy, Iranians voted in huge majorities for an explicitly Islamic republic and for a constitution that placed a clergyman, Khomeini, at its apex.
—Haleh Esfandiari, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
Given that Quisling came from a family with four generations of clergymen, his conversations with Olsen provide fascinating philosophical duels in New Testament understanding.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
Among the types of influencers listed as possible collaborators are actors, politicians, media representatives, activists, and clergymen.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergyman
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The abolitionist, women’s rights advocate and preacher was born into slavery in New York, sold four times, then escaped in 1826.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
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Bonhoeffer tells the story of a preacher at the center of a plot to assassinate Hitler.Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2024
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
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But over the summer of 2022, churches in the city started being shut down and priests detained.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Jean-Charles de Castelbajac designed the liturgical vestments worn by bishops, priests and deacons to be used during mass, which made their public debut at the celebration.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 7 Dec. 2024
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After retiring from Hudson's in 2009, but still serving as mayor, Roberts became an Episcopal deacon in 2010.M.L. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
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And the reverend’s response reveals a contradiction that many Black Christian women have faced: They are encouraged to seek spiritual freedom but are still expected to remain subservient.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Clergy Council’s website has been scrubbed of several references to the reverend’s position as president there.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Despite his rhetoric over the last week, the 85-year-old cleric is probably still trying to figure out a response.Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Sue Parfitt, Coleman’s fellow cleric, was also arrested at the Insulate Britain protests.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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David Niven is a young bishop who's so tripped up by ambition and the desire to build a cathedral that he's forgotten what's truly important...even his own family.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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When Juan Diego returned to the bishop and opened the tilma to show them the roses, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared printed on the fabric.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergyman. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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