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Recent Examples of pastor
Among the friends and musicians tagged in the clip were singer-songwriter Jensen McRae, pastor Judah Smith, Josh Mehl, DJ Taylor James, producer Camper, and others.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2025
The renowned pastor joined the TODAY show on March 26 to discuss the health scare.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
The other candidates are: Paula Thomas, a former Sacramento radio station owner; Kenneth Anderson, senior pastor of Williams Chapel Baptist Church; and Kara Murray-Badal, who selects recipients of seed money from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2025
Cynthia invited Natalia to move in with her and her husband, Christian pastor Antwon Mans, and their 10 children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2025
The renowned pastor joined the TODAY show on March 26 to discuss the health scare.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
The other candidates are: Paula Thomas, a former Sacramento radio station owner; Kenneth Anderson, senior pastor of Williams Chapel Baptist Church; and Kara Murray-Badal, who selects recipients of seed money from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
—East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2025
Cynthia invited Natalia to move in with her and her husband, Christian pastor Antwon Mans, and their 10 children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
Noun
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Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
14 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.—
Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
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The emails, sent from Saints accounts, don’t specify which clergymen were removed from the list or why.—
Brett Martel,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 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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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Jade, a 3-year-old shepherd, was originally adopted from an animal shelter in Olathe, Kansas, in December 2024.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Saint Patrick was actually British, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved as a teenager to work as a shepherd.—
Maureen Murphy,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop.—
Time,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Last month, days before his hospitalization, Pope Francis penned a letter to U.S. bishops that criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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This interest followed him throughout his life, expanding during his education at King’s College London and Cambridge and into his work as a curate in Hampshire.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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