prelate

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Recent Examples of prelate The new archbishop would become Milwaukee's 12th prelate, overseeing a 10-county archdiocese in southeast Wisconsin with 187 parishes and 101 schools. Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024 Pell, maintaining his innocence, served over 13 months in Australian prison as his attorneys appealed the case to the High Court of Australia, which ruled unanimously (7-0) to overturn the conviction and quash all charges against the prelate. Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023 Those measures drew attention, but the punishment of the prelates from the United States, a country whose clerics the Argentine pontiff has long been skeptical of, has touched a conservative nerve. Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023 This punishment was handed down after a number of highly critical statement and actions the American prelate had made towards the pope, particularly his efforts to make the church more welcoming to the LGBTQ community and to give more responsibility to women and lay-people (non-priests). William Skipworth, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for prelate 
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Noun
  • Pierre, the papal nuncio, will install Grob as the new archbishop.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Puerto Rico’s Catholic archbishop also called on Trump to apologize.
    Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on Sept. 11, 2020, and ordained two months later.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
  • To evade Western sanctions, the Chinese Communist Party uses less bloody and more hidden methods of coercion against these bishops than the show trials and physical ...
    Nina Shea, National Review, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • When the monsignor was murdered at the end of Season 3, Ignatius was devastated.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 July 2024
  • There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • The pope then dedicated the Pantheon to Mary, the Blessed Mother and martyrs.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Caught in the vortex of egos is Cardinal Lawrence (played by a sharp Ralph Fiennes), an Englishman who’d tried to resign recently from his post over his growing doubt about his beliefs, but who was charged by the late pope to lead the conclave anyway.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In 2013, she was recruited as inaugural dean of the dental school at the University of Utah.
    ByMeredith Wadman, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In January, as students and faculty continued to protest, an associate dean at the school resigned, accusing the administration of a lack of transparency on the cuts.
    Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Prelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prelate. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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