archbishop

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Recent Examples of archbishop The archbishop is often called on to speak at significant national moments, presiding over major royal events, including the recent coronation of King Charles. Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025 Mullally replaces the former archbishop, Justin Welby, who announced his resignation in November. Lauren Frayer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025 Mullally’s appointment comes 11 months after the previous archbishop, Justin Welby, resigned after a damning report into his handling of the case of a prolific child abuser associated with the church. Jamie Gray, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025 The archbishop’s leadership in Denver has faced criticism by Catholic parishioners who disagreed with his anti-LBGTQ policies and statements, or took issue with his more conservative values impacting local parishes. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for archbishop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archbishop
Noun
  • The barely believable but entirely true story saw gay rights activists trick their way into the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London by dressing plainly and conservatively – one even went as far as dressing as nun, while another donned the garbs of a bishop.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What to Know Maloyan was an Armenian bishop and martyr who was killed during the Ottoman genocide in 1915.
    Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Massimo Faggioli, a church historian at Trinity College, Dublin, who was previously based at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, said the pope’s interventions on immigration in recent weeks were significant for US Catholic leaders.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The pope expressed that immigrants should be allowed to receive Communion.
    Julia Marnin, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.
    D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Colombian prelate also recognised the call for the Church to move faster in tackling abuse.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Debates and complaints between prelates have historically been handled behind the scenes in hopes of maintaining an image of cohesion despite obviously divergent mindsets.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Many of the homes that have collapsed were hundreds of feet away from the ocean’s shoreline when they were initially built, said Reide Corbett, the dean of the Coastal Studies Institute at East Carolina University.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In his nearly 20 years in Miami as dean of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and of all things jazz in this town, Berg has proven his knack for bringing unexpected combinations of great artists together under one roof.
    Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • 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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