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Recent Examples of apostolic
In these words, Peter, asked by the Master, together with the other disciples, about his faith in him, expressed the patrimony that the Church, through the apostolic succession, has preserved, deepened and handed on for two thousand years.
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Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
In 2014, the university awarded Prevost, then the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, an honorary doctor of humanities.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 10 May 2025
By 2014, Prevost was back in Peru after Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo and later the bishop of Chiclayo.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
In 2014, he was named apostolic administrator and then bishop of Chiclayo, in northern Peru in a region where the Chicago Augustinians have long had a presence.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
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Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
In 2014, the university awarded Prevost, then the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, an honorary doctor of humanities.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 10 May 2025
By 2014, Prevost was back in Peru after Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo and later the bishop of Chiclayo.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
In 2014, he was named apostolic administrator and then bishop of Chiclayo, in northern Peru in a region where the Chicago Augustinians have long had a presence.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostolic
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The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.—
Julia Hobbs,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2024
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Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.—
Caleb Wiegandt,
The Courier-Journal,
5 June 2023
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Other papal childhood homes have sparked the flourishing of unknown small towns, according to a USA TODAY survey of Leo’s predecessors.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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Such an epic event doesn’t come along every papal conclave.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
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What truly reshaped my thinking was hearing personal stories from pro-life evangelical women who have had abortions.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
27 June 2025
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Wilson grew up in the town, where his father was an evangelical minister.—
Samuel Perry,
The Conversation,
20 June 2025
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Brennan said the decision to end McHugh’s ministry was based on the recommendation of the independent Diocesan Review Board, a panel of church lay people and a priest who review allegations of clerical abuse and misconduct.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
24 June 2025
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Is this the start of the collapse of Iran's clerical regime?—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
22 June 2025
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Today, Dassault hopes to cash in its experience chips for VORTEX, which has received €30 million (US$35 million) from the French Ministry of Armed Forces, with hopes for more support from ESA later this year after the agency's ministerial meeting in November.—
David Szondy
June 27,
New Atlas,
27 June 2025
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But a final decision to proceed and commit to the mission will not be made before the space agency's ministerial meeting in November.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 June 2025
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Back in England, the Cotswolds offer a slicker version of pastoral escape.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The story of baseball is fundamentally nostalgic, connecting us to childhood and to the country’s pastoral beginnings.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.—
Tad Friend,
The New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2022
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Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2017
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Related Articles For the past 40-plus years in the Philippines, Natori’s mother Angelita Cruz has been very close to the nuncios (who act as pontifical ambassadors), the designer said.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
18 June 2025
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The only pontifical name that hasn't been used more than once is Peter, the name of the first pope, though there's no prohibition against doing so.—
Christopher Watson,
ABC News,
8 May 2025
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“Apostolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostolic. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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