Definition of prelate
: an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank
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The moment was vintage Sullivan, a progressive prelate who has championed a variety of social and religious causes and embraced sometimes controversial views on important issues in the nation’s public discourse.
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Bishop Lei is one of several Catholic prelates who have been appointed by China’s state religious authorities without the blessing of the pope.
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For years, Vatican prelates dismissed the accusations of Father Degollado’s victims as slander, but Bishop Scicluna listened to them and, after John Paul’s death, convinced the Vatican that Father Degollado had abused seminarians in his own order.
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Miller was named honorary prelate to Pope John Paul II on May 29, 1991.
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And Vi Lyles released the endorsement of Bishop George Battle Jr., a leader of the the A.M.E. Zion Church and presiding prelate of the Piedmont Episcopal District.
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The Vatican has not commented publicly on the reports in French daily Le Monde and other lay and religious publications that Zerbo, Diarra and another Mali prelate opened the Swiss accounts starting in 2002.
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How many prelates stood up when an imam and his assistant were murdered in Queens, or when a mosque was burned in Florida?
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At the Council of Clermont, in 1095, Pope Urban II addressed a crowd of prelates, knights, and nobles—the leaders of the Latin West.
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Definition of prelate for English Language Learners
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: a high-ranking Christian priest : a bishop, cardinal, etc.
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