presbytery

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Recent Examples of presbytery Gretta wanted my grandparents to join her and a small group of other congregants in a formal complaint to the presbytery. Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024 After the service, William and Kate headed to the cathedral’s presbytery, where the princess laid a bouquet of flowers in front of a portrait of the queen. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2023 In a blog post published Wednesday, Grant recounted how notifications about an active shooter at the school interrupted a presbytery planning meeting that included Chad Scruggs, Covenant Presbyterian Church pastor and father of one of the shooting victims. Joanna Slater, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023 Reports indicate the presbytery doesn’t have a formal security program for its churches and schools but that members have worked together to share best practices and improve safety. Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | Stryens-Fernandes@al.com, al, 31 Mar. 2023 The church linked to the school is a member of the presbytery, which includes congregations in middle Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Travis Loller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023 On the road into the city from Melbourne, the state capital, the red brick Gothic-like presbytery of St. Alipius immediately stands out. Jacqueline Williams, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018 After carefully filling an ancient presbytery near France’s Loire Valley with a personal library of no fewer than 35,000 volumes, he was compelled to pack them all up again in preparation for a move to a New York apartment. Ernest Hilbert, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018 The local presbytery of the Presbyterian Church USA asked its leaders last year to embark on a period of self-assessment. Jonathan M. Pitts, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
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Noun
  • Amicable relations had long existed between the Catholic Church in Rome and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, but the Roman episcopate embraced Mussolini’s regime and its aggressive foreign policy in the mid-1930s.
    Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The selection of Bishop McElroy, whose diocese has never been led by a cardinal, sends a message about the pope’s wish for a more liberal orientation for the U.S. episcopate.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 May 2022
Noun
  • Announced tonight to open in April 2026, the glass-and-concrete masterpiece is designed amorphous and horizontal—like Los Angeles itself—to foster LACMA director Michael Govan’s vision of a democratic curation of artworks, mixing various eras and geographies without wings and hierarchies.
    Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Lee also attended Michel Foucault’s lectures in Tokyo in 1970, and the French theorist’s revolutionary approach to hierarchies of power—his foregrounding of horizontality and relation—finds a subtle echo in the approachability and simplicity of Lee’s unassuming sculptures and paintings.
    Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The Catholic Church is among many faiths that recruit and hire international clergy to fill staffing gaps that have widened in recent decades.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Trujillo also emphasized the Trump campaign’s outreach to evangelical clergy, who play an important role within Latino communities.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • He was ordained to the diaconate in 1971 and to the priesthood in 1972.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Brignac pleaded to be let into the diaconate.
    David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 16 Dec. 2020
Noun
  • Of the cast, Judy Greer stands out as the flustered but patient substitute pageant director and mom who learns to raise her voice in support of the kids the church wants to avoid and leave behind.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • About 40 people stood outside the church eager to cast their vote.
    Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024

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