clergywoman

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Recent Examples of clergywoman Patterson, an ordained clergywoman with a background in healthcare, joined the Legislature via a special election in 2020. oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
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Noun
  • His intelligence sources ranged from an anonymous stable boy to the minister Samuel Mather, son of the Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather and a brother-in-law of Massachusetts’ royal governor, Thomas Hutchinson.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • And there’s one collared clergyman hoisted onto someone’s shoulders.
    Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The title mixed action-game elements with tower defense and real-time strategy to create a memorable experience as the swordsman Soh escorts the priestess Yoshiro through a mountain tainted with evil spirits.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
  • However, the fact that the female figure may represent a priestess holding religious objects makes the discovery exceptional, as the researchers write.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The diocese was dominated by clerics who were members of Opus Dei, a very conservative sect of Catholicism, and Prevost, who had to become a Peruvian citizen to become a bishop, was charged with moving it back to the middle.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
  • Among the overnight options in Trinity is Bishop White Manor, an 1830’s manse that was once home to Newfoundland’s Anglican bishop.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • In an area that used to produce influential Catholic churchmen the way the Dodgers churned out Rookies of the Year, Gomez has amounted to the living equivalent of a hair shirt: a mode of piety that serves no one but the wearer.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Today, the priests are on the road to canonization, and an associate of theirs, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, is one of Bukele’s most outspoken critics.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • Bishops must live in poverty and simplicity, generously opening their homes to all and acting as a father figure and brother to his priests, Leo said.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The archbishop’s letter named one of Fitzpayne’s many paramours: Forde, who was rector of a parish church in a village on the Fitzpayne family’s estate in Dorset.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
  • In the weeks ahead of the conclave, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, said in a joint press conference with five other American cardinals on Friday.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 June 2025
  • These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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“Clergywoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergywoman. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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