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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.
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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).
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
His living room included an antique Japanese screen hanging on a white wall above a leather banquette with pillow sable heads mounted on silver pedestals and a parsons table.
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Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
6 Dec. 2023
Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of the local parish.
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V.m. Braganza,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Oct. 2023
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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
His living room included an antique Japanese screen hanging on a white wall above a leather banquette with pillow sable heads mounted on silver pedestals and a parsons table.
—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
6 Dec. 2023
Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of the local parish.
—
V.m. Braganza,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parson
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Nearly every murder is solved by the end of the episode, but despite the unusual twist of having the village vicar team up with the police, the real action comes from the relationships among the characters.
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The sacred meets the secular in this long-running pairing of a young vicar with a worldly police detective in the titular idyllic Cambridgeshire village during the 1950s and ‘60s.
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Robin, our hero, is the son of a country clergyman.
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The trio of vicars starts with James Norton as Sidney Chambers, the doe-eyed clergyman with a taste for cool jazz and clever women.
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Hong Kong — A pastor who founded one of China’s most prominent underground churches has been released from prison and reunited with his family in the United States, his daughter told CNN.
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Michelle Obama is a shining example of this inspirational leadership, the kind also demonstrated by my mother and aunties, my sister and sister- friends, by my pastor and elders, and by my colleagues in the maternal and infant health space.
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There was only one doctor left in the country who could do it, neurosurgeon Volodymyr Smolanka, acting rector of Uzhhorod National University.
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The Rectory As the name suggests, The Rectory was originally home to the rector of nearby All Saints’ Church and his 14 children.
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Meanwhile, churchmen claimed the authority to restrain violence, encouraged just wars and threatened violent behaviors with spiritual sanctions.
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Not all birth rituals depended on the intercession of a saint or the authority of a churchman.
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.
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Rosa, who is legally blind, has Daisy, a German shepherd, to care for her.
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The delightful and deceptively deep family mystery comedy stars Hugh Jackman as an English shepherd (Hugh Jackman) who is found dead.
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The ritual confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.
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Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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“Parson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parson. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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