diaconal

adjective

Definition of diaconalnext
as in apostolic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diaconal
  1. apostolic
  2. episcopal
  3. papal
  4. pontifical
  5. ecclesiastical
  6. canonical
  7. missionary
  8. evangelical
Adjective
  • Pope Francis's stop in East Timor is part of his ongoing apostolic journey across four countries between Sept. 2 and Sept. 13.
    Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.
    Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
Definition of apostolic
Adjective
  • The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.
    Julia Hobbs, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.
    Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
Definition of episcopal
Adjective
  • Set in the halls of the Vatican against the backdrop of a papal conclave, the film stars Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence, a man of faith tormented by personal doubts, and delves inside the secretive power struggles within the Church.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The sportiest pope of recent decades was Pope John Paul II (1979-2005), a keen skier and swimmer who continued to hit the slopes after his election and even built an Olympic swimming pool in the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.
    George Ramsay, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of papal
Adjective
  • The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.
    Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
Definition of pontifical
Adjective
  • Hint #3: Wednesday's answer has ecclesiastical connections.
    Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • One cardinal accuses another of simony, the buying and selling of ecclesiastical office.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of ecclesiastical
Adjective
  • Where is the canonical image of American scientific progress, of man going to space?
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Despite producing at least two canonical entries to hip-hop’s Golden Age – Black Moon’s Enta da Stage and Smif-n-Wessun’s Dah Shinin’ — Da Beatminerz have often felt, unfairly, like a footnote to that celebrated era.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of canonical
Adjective
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The viral illness takes its name from the Nigerian town where two missionary nurses died from it, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of missionary
Adjective
  • Widespread frustration over organized crime throughout the hemisphere, as well as social changes such as the spread of evangelical Christianity, mean that right-wing leaders may be favored to win upcoming elections in Chile in 2025 and Brazil and Colombia in 2026.
    Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Until now, the only religious program offered at the school has been through the evangelical LifeWise program, which removes children from class for 55 minutes each week for Bible study and field trips to churches.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of evangelical
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