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Recent Examples of presbyter
This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
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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
Before coming to Birmingham, Webster had served 18 years as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Sierra Blanca in southern New Mexico.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 19 July 2017
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
Before coming to Birmingham, Webster had served 18 years as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Sierra Blanca in southern New Mexico.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 19 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presbyter
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David Niven is a young bishop who's so tripped up by ambition and the desire to build a cathedral that he's forgotten what's truly important...even his own family.James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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When Juan Diego returned to the bishop and opened the tilma to show them the roses, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared printed on the fabric.Paula Soria, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024
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The prelate suggested that any rush toward legalizing civil divorce could undermine Filipino families – the foundational aspect of society, according to the country’s constitution.Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024
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Archbishop José Gomez, the soft-spoken, hard-line prelate.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
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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
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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
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Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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The cathedral’s thunderous organ, its 8,000-pipes painstakingly restored and cleaned of toxic dust, will also respond to the archbishop’s invocation, with four organists playing a variety of melodies.Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Allegation #3: Former Penn admissions dean airs frustrations Monday’s court filing also says the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, gave the children of donors preferential treatment.Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Instead, CEOs and deans are letting right-wing activists bully them into junking the whole project.The Week UK, theweek, 15 Dec. 2024
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In the 1920s, at the tail end of World War I, Dr. William Goodwin–then pastor of Virginia’s historic Bruton Parish Church–wrote to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a petition to restore his hometown of Colonial Williamsburg.Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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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
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Born in a homestead just north of the D.C. border in 1930 and 1933, the brothers were raised in historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, where their father was an associate minister and their mother a deaconess.Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
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The Pauline epistles contain numerous references to women who were instrumental in the leadership of the early church: Phoebe, a deaconess; Chloe; Apphia; Euodia; Nympha; Junia.Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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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
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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
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“Presbyter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presbyter. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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