parson

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Recent Examples of parson Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of the local parish. V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023 Around 1914, Peter and Laurie Kerr commissioned Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence, who was the first dean of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, to design a new home based on a Scottish country parson’s manse. Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023 Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children. Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 Charles Darwin was a companion to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle with time to see the world before planning to return and become a parson. Catherine Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020 See all Example Sentences for parson 
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Noun
  • On Wednesday, Bishop Robert Casey, the vicar general of Archdiocese of Chicago, said the Catholic Church will continue to offer resources for immigrants in the city, including their immigration ministry and the services offered through Catholic Charities.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Most songs concern a protagonist who pursued a career as a clergyman despite a lack of faith.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In 2005, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the leading Shiite clergyman, was forced to mediate between rival Shiite groups amid a deadly Sunni insurgency.
    Ranj Alaaldin, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2018
Noun
  • The noted pastor and his wife are encouraging others to be intentional about their healing journey by offering a safe space.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Jan. 2025
  • During the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s, several pastors and theologians joined forces to resist the influence of Nazi doctrine over German Protestant churches.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team.
    Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • My colleague Joe Reid has also chosen to shepherd one particular GoFundMe to completion.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The group has more than 80 shepherds available for adoption.
    Maryanne Dell, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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