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Recent Examples of prelate
The life of the court and contemplative life were two models in which the leisure of the lord, the prelate, and the warrior could function.
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Walter Benjamin, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
At the time of the bishops’ appeal, Lai had been imprisoned in solitary confinement for almost 1,000 days, and the prelates were polite ...
—George Weigel, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
Francis delegated a Vatican prelate to participate in a Mass for him on Sunday.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The prelate continued by ticking off a laundry list of crucial jobs and roles that undocumented immigrants play in American society as Trump glowered, flanked by First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
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Walter Benjamin, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
At the time of the bishops’ appeal, Lai had been imprisoned in solitary confinement for almost 1,000 days, and the prelates were polite ...
—George Weigel, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
Francis delegated a Vatican prelate to participate in a Mass for him on Sunday.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The prelate continued by ticking off a laundry list of crucial jobs and roles that undocumented immigrants play in American society as Trump glowered, flanked by First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prelate
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Francis, drawing from his experiencing ministering to low-income Argentinians during his time as Buenos Aires archbishop, was committed to the ideal of mercy.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Nothing in the church canons requires it, but the standard practice is for archbishops to be elevated to the College of Cardinals.—
Randall Balmer,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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By 2024, lay and religious women participated and voted in key synodal sessions previously exclusively reserved for bishops and cardinals.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Prior to his papacy, bishops and cardinals typically submitted their resignations at 75.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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The trial, though, proved to be a reputational boomerang for the Holy See, showing deficiencies in the Vatican's legal system, unseemly turf battles among monsignors and how the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Sep. 2015
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What to know about the monsignor chosen by the Pope.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2025
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This is the pope's latest public appearance during Holy Week.—
Phoebe Natanson,
ABC News,
19 Apr. 2025
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The Vatican has said the pope’s condition is slowly improving.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.—
Fr. Goran Jovicic,
National Review,
13 June 2021
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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
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As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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When Kaldi shared the berries with an abbot of a local monastery, the monk ended up wide awake during the evening prayers.—
Marta Zaraska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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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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Cardinal Giovanni Battista, the dean of the College of Cardinals, will lead the proceedings.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Some deans have even been chosen as pope, including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Prelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prelate. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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