archpriest

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Recent Examples of archpriest As evening fell over the square on Monday, hundreds of people gathered in front of Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, the archpriest of the nominal basilica, who led a rosary prayer. Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025 The archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) said that High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) strikes on Russia by Ukraine are God's punishment for abortions, according to the Moscow Times. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 An archpriest, ordained for over 10 years, Bock, 66, shared with The Arizona Republic some of the traditions and customs Eastern Orthodox Christians adhere to during their Lenten and Holy Week. Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024 On this cloudless afternoon, beneath a gossamer canopy of pine trees, archpriest Bogdan Dumindiak has finished a graveside service for a grandmother killed in the apartment attack. Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023 Before the general populace were allowed into the basilica, prayers were recited and the basilica’s archpriest, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, sprinkled holy water over the body. Fox News, 3 Jan. 2023 Before the rank-and-file faithful were allowed into the basilica, prayers were recited and the basilica’s archpriest, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, sprinkled holy water over the body, and a small cloud of incense was released near the bier. Time, 2 Jan. 2023 Don Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, was the archpriest of Casnigo, a town in northern Italy about 50 miles northeast of Milan. Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020 Law moved to Italy to serve as archpriest of the Papal Liberian Basilica of St. Mary Major after he was forced to resign in 2002 as archbishop of Boston. Laura Smith-Spark and Delia Gallagher, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archpriest
Noun
  • 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
  • In Olympus, an ancient Lycian port city in the Turkish province of Antalya, archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a Christian bishop's vast bathhouse.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Due to not being a parish church, weddings are only allowed at the landmark after permission is granted from the archbishop.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In addition to Longo, Pope Leo elevated six other men and women to sainthood, including an Armenian archbishop tortured and killed after refusing to renounce Catholicism, a Venezuelan physician who dedicated his service to the poor and several nuns who spent decades helping the downtrodden.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 30 Oct. 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
  • Its meandering path took it over some of the warmest ocean water temperatures, said Claudia Benitez-Nelson, an oceanographer and senior associate dean at the University of South Carolina.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Like Kilpatrick, Howard associate dean Ingrid Sturgis said the school is updating its site and would soon restore the specific reference to Terez.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, the pope was ailing at the time and died on April 21.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • God chooses the pope, not cardinals, my barista says.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 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
  • 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
Noun
  • As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Archpriest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archpriest. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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