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Recent Examples of chaplain
Rich Miserendino, who serves as chaplain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
Among those who escorted them to their kids was Howard Dotson, an interfaith chaplain who had come to comfort families.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
At the center of the case is Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children's hospital chaplain now in the Butler County Jail near Cincinnati, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held him since July 9.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2025
What neither girl expected was to discover that Catherine’s mother, Wendy — a fire department chaplain and grief counselor — had been called to the scene of Lizzie’s father’s death five years ago.
—Sean Mandell, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
Among those who escorted them to their kids was Howard Dotson, an interfaith chaplain who had come to comfort families.
—Nbc News, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2025
At the center of the case is Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children's hospital chaplain now in the Butler County Jail near Cincinnati, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held him since July 9.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2025
What neither girl expected was to discover that Catherine’s mother, Wendy — a fire department chaplain and grief counselor — had been called to the scene of Lizzie’s father’s death five years ago.
—Sean Mandell, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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Robinson was ultimately arrested after his father recognized him in images released to the public and persuaded his son to confide in a youth pastor, a law enforcement source told CNN.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Two events led to a new direction The pastor pointed to two jarring events in March 2019 that led the congregation to its current place.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Her closeness to a man, her confessor Father Van Exem, was questioned by her congregation.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
28 Aug. 2025
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The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church.—
Timothy Gabrielli,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2025
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Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.—
Paulina Czupryna,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
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Parochial vicar for a grouping known as Pastorate 22 or Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, which collectively includes two churches, St. Raphael and Good Shepherd, and one school, St. James, all in Madison, 2023 to present.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The bakers were normal people: a shop worker, a vicar’s wife, a searingly competitive sixty-three-year-old Buddhist whose coup de grâce was a flock of choux-pastry cygnets.—
Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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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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To be sure, Grey’s novel is a literary protest against the mistreatment of American Indians by the federal government and Christian missionaries, and his original denouement is a little more complicated.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Now, the Franciscan missionaries oppressing the Native Americans in the painting had arrows piercing their heads and bodies.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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The bishop had no recollection of meeting Wilson’s husband.—
Sophia Tiedge,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Christian city was a significant bishop's seat in the region during the Byzantine era.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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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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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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