sky pilot

noun

Definition of sky pilotnext
as in chaplain

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  1. chaplain
  2. pastor
  3. rector
  4. confessor
  5. vicar
  6. curate
  7. parson
  8. shepherd
Noun
  • The longtime football chaplain for Auburn University died tragically over the weekend after falling into a local lake.
    Danielle Jennings, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In the news Barry Black, who has been chaplain of the U.S. Senate since 2003, has been hospitalized and is under the care of the Capitol's physician after suffering a bleed on his brain, said Rev. Lisa Schultz, Black's chief of staff.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of chaplain
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of pastor
Noun
  • Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
  • It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of rector
Noun
  • Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
  • 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
Definition of confessor
Noun
  • Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of vicar
Noun
  • Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team.
    Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of curate
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of parson
Noun
  • Hello Fresh's specialty kit included ingredients and step-by-step recipe cards to create both a shepherd’s pie and a classic English trifle.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Throughout the day, the Pie Room will offer pies of all sorts, including a shepherd’s pie with buttered crust, along with breads and patisserie.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of shepherd
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