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Recent Examples of churchman
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
The good news about the release of Álvarez and the other 18 Catholic churchmen is tempered by the imposition of their exile and by the knowledge that other advocates for freedom in Nicaragua remain behind bars.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
They were abetted by the Latin churchmen who forged the Donation of Constantine as the pope’s license to appoint a king of the Romans.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
Those two churchmen guide flocks in geopolitical areas of keen concern to the Vatican.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
The good news about the release of Álvarez and the other 18 Catholic churchmen is tempered by the imposition of their exile and by the knowledge that other advocates for freedom in Nicaragua remain behind bars.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
They were abetted by the Latin churchmen who forged the Donation of Constantine as the pope’s license to appoint a king of the Romans.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
Those two churchmen guide flocks in geopolitical areas of keen concern to the Vatican.
—Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchman
Noun
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So Harald Schiffl now speaks on the clergyman's behalf.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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His remarks come after reports that priests and pastoral workers have been unable to bring communion to those detained.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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But Wolfgang Rothe — a priest and scholar of canon law — says this charge is often pitted at critics within the church.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
4 Nov. 2025
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The series includes the participation of Rusty Yates, Andrea’s former husband, as well as former followers of preacher Michael Woroniecki.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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They were covered in the press as the hipster ministers, the preachers in sneakers, the hypepriests.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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Kirton, former Mayor Schulman and Lucy Hurston, a deacon at the Bloomfield Congregational Church, jointly sued the town and the town council soon after voters approved the budget referendum in May.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
7 Jan. 2026
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Last December, they were ordained to be transitional deacons by Cardinal Robert McElroy, who was then head of the San Diego diocese and is both a controversial and consequential figure in the Catholic church.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Dec. 2025
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For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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Analysts point to how the restrictions have held, despite high-level pushback by other prominent clerics, and multiple attempts on the ground to sidestep the rules.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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Matthew Long, a reverend at Portland’s Sudanese Fellowship Presbyterian Church, said that his community of South Sudanese worshippers panicked after hearing the news of TPS ending.—
Yamiche Alcindor,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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Weeks before he would be crowned that year’s winner, a local reverend declared his commitment to supporting the city’s growing reputation.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
14 Dec. 2025
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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This shop for ecclesiastics has an exquisite selection of high-quality pieces.—
Zoe Ruffner,
Vogue,
19 Dec. 2019
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Churchman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/churchman. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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