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Recent Examples of chaplain
He was later engaged to former police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith.
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
The Chaplain will follow airport chaplain Tobias Wallace, who uses decidedly unorthodox methods to solve daily crises.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 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
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Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
The Chaplain will follow airport chaplain Tobias Wallace, who uses decidedly unorthodox methods to solve daily crises.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
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Daryl Crouch was Green Hill's pastor from 2012-2021 and now serves as executive director of Everyone's Wilson, a network of churches that work to create spiritual and social initiatives in the community.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Judah Smith, the celebrity pastor, officiated the ceremony.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 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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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
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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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The archdiocese’s vicar general, the Rev. John Riley, has been appointed as the parish’s temporary administrator, the archdiocese said.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 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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The story of two mismatched missionaries spreading the gospel won nine Tony Awards in 2011, including for best musical.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
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Muslim traders and missionaries began traveling to Hausa lands in the twelfth century, and much of the society gradually converted to Islam.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Sep. 2025
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Leo will also speak up, when necessary, particularly on the treatment of immigrants, an issue close to his heart from his time as a bishop in Peru.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Mullally was ordained in 2001 and left the government three years later for church roles at Salisbury Cathedral and then becoming only the fourth woman bishop in the Church of England as the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 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 8 Oct. 2025.
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