archbishop

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Recent Examples of archbishop Francis helped develop his career: he was named a bishop, then an archbishop, then a cardinal during Francis’ papacy. Emma Bubola, New York Times, 1 May 2025 The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop. Franklin Briceno, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2025 However, Tagle, a former archbishop of Manila, remains a close second in the betting odds. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025 Tagle has more than 40 years in the priesthood despite his relative youth and became the archbishop of Manila, capital city of the Philippines, in 2011. Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for archbishop
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Noun
  • The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • Chicago Tribune One of the many titles that Leo assumed when he was elected May 8 was bishop of Rome.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Modern popes have traveled extensively after their elections, something truly catholic in the original meaning of the word.
    Emmett Coyne, The Hill, 23 May 2025
  • For over a decade, the secular government’s bilateral diplomacy with the pope has been treated as separate from ecumenism efforts between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • They would be led by an older, more experienced person – an abbot.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Parolin is an Italian prelate and one of the highest-ranking officials in the Roman Catholic Church.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • One of them was even circulated among his peers by Dolan, the US cardinal, despite church laws that say prelates must not publicly discuss possible papal candidates.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The argument that Trump has violated the 10th Amendment is a clever subversion of a line of thinking that has traditionally been backed by conservative judges, said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • Pesticides are unique among chemicals, though, says Melissa Perry, an environmental epidemiologist and dean of George Mason’s College of Public Health.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 5 June 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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