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Recent Examples of chaplain
Among those there to help Lori and Chris Coble in their grief was Roger Rustad, a Mission Hospital trauma chaplain who was with the family hours after the fatal crash.
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
The plans featured a police training space, a gym, a kitchen, and spaces for career development, a chaplain area and a wellness office.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 21 Jan. 2026
There were heartfelt tributes, proclamations, poetry, and a blessing from our chaplain.
—Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Latif is the executive director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of New York City, and was appointed a New York City Police Department chaplain in 2007.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
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Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
The plans featured a police training space, a gym, a kitchen, and spaces for career development, a chaplain area and a wellness office.
—Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 21 Jan. 2026
There were heartfelt tributes, proclamations, poetry, and a blessing from our chaplain.
—Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Latif is the executive director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of New York City, and was appointed a New York City Police Department chaplain in 2007.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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Gibson also fought for the rights of Black people alongside her husband, late pastor and activist Theodore Gibson, a pioneer of desegregation who led the effort to integrate then-Dade County Public Schools.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Despite a pending green card application, the Anglican pastor did not attend church for weeks after friends advised him to avoid going outside.—
Gisela Salomon,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Drawn to her difference, neighbors and coworkers treat Pavitra as a confessor and sounding board for their own preoccupations.—
Miriam Gershow,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Instead, the central question and driving force is how Aggie and Brian will lure Nile out of the walled fortress afforded by wealth and into the trap of spilling his guts to a confessor.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
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Instead, the words written in her autobiography served as the guide for the two-hour service filled with hymns and scriptures, as Christ Episcopal Church rector Father Jonathan Archer read a passage from the book which was published in 2000 during her memorial on Friday.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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At Sagrada Familia, a prayer verse is included at the base of the cross installed Friday afternoon, said church rector Turull.—
Suman Naishadham,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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The chapel vicar Cardinal Baldo Reina has issued a statement on the matter, but has not weighed in on whether the angel’s face is that of the prime minister.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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Fast forward two years, after a period of poor mental health following my injury, the realization of the vicar’s sentence really hit.—
Abigail Wise,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
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It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Weston Port, the former San Juan Hills High standout linebacker, is finishing up his second year as a Mormon missionary on assignment in Spain.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Foucauld had later left the army to become a Trappist monk and had established himself as a missionary in Tamanrasset, Algeria, in the middle of the Sahara Desert; he was killed there by local thugs in 1916.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Pillar story alleges that Dudley spotted the bishop making late-night border crossings into Mexico, parking in a lot reserved for customers of a brothel, then boarding a shuttle exclusive to customers of the brothel.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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As Francis makes contact with his father, his body also touches the vast, ornate velvet coat that a bishop places on his back to prevent him from becoming fully nude.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
27 Feb. 2026
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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