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Recent Examples of chaplain
Newsweek has filled out an online contact form with Heights College where Walford was a school chaplain for comment on Sunday.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
The airport is providing chaplains on site to provide support, comfort and guidance to employees and passengers.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
Collins served as a Navy chaplain for two years in the 1990s and later joined the Air Force Reserve in 2002, being deployed to Iraq in 2008.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
Collins, a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve and Iraq War veteran, launched an unsuccessful bid to represent Georgia in the Senate in 2020.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2025
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David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
The airport is providing chaplains on site to provide support, comfort and guidance to employees and passengers.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
Collins served as a Navy chaplain for two years in the 1990s and later joined the Air Force Reserve in 2002, being deployed to Iraq in 2008.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
Collins, a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve and Iraq War veteran, launched an unsuccessful bid to represent Georgia in the Senate in 2020.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
Noun
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Mayall also served as a pastor for the St. Joseph Parish in Wilmette from July 2016 to December 2018, according to a separate letter sent Saturday to the Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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Barbee also worked as a full-time youth pastor at a Los Angeles church from 1999 to 2004, according to his LinkedIn profile.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Feb. 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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Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2025
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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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On Wednesday, Francis' vicar for Rome urged his followers to silently pray for an hour for the pope before evening vespers services.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Sister Mary Thomas, the vicar, had come from Wisconsin to witness the event.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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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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He was devastated when his son ditched medical school after being indoctrinated into his church and was inspired to become a missionary.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2025
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Image Foreign Christian missionaries have kept their distance from Kosovo’s conversion campaign.—
Fatjona Mejdini,
New York Times,
4 Jan. 2025
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Jérémie attaches himself to a local bishop (Jacques Develay) in the process, sending everyone, including the village priest, into a psychosexual frenzy.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Holy Father has clearly identified for the U.S. bishops and Church the protection and advocacy for the dignity of migrants as the preeminent urgency at this moment.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 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 Feb. 2025.
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