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
  • The three killers might have gotten away with their crime if not for Casey, who eight months after the murder confessed to a clergyman and then led police to Pahler's mummified body.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The clergyman was from the Maryknoll mission, a Roman Catholic order that had long worked with the Japanese American community and was now assisting with their removal from the West Coast.
    Tracy Slater July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Seer: Big-budget historical epic following the Trojan priestess Cassandra and her lover Apollo.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 15 July 2025
  • One of the exciting new discoveries includes new information regarding Babylonian women–many were priestesses.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Born in a homestead just north of the D.C. border in 1930 and 1933, the brothers were raised in historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, where their father was an associate minister and their mother a deaconess.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The Christian city was a significant bishop's seat in the region during the Byzantine era.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Before their procession Saturday, the pilgrims gathered for a Mass in the Gesù church held by a senior Italian bishop, Francesco Savino.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 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
  • What makes the family tradition sustainable in central Massachusetts, where the Vallelis now live, is a pastor-sharing arrangement between two congregations that couldn’t afford a full-time clergyperson on their own.
    G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • The investigation involves local police, priests, and a house of God.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The most high profile of which is The Haunting of Hill House, but Midnight Mass, the story of a priest who arrives at a small island community performing miracles, is easily one of his best.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Phil Helsel The archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis delivered a message of hope after today’s mass shooting.
    Marc Santia, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In March 2025, Cosby and the Rev. Shelton J. Fabre, archbishop of Louisville, announced the 34,000-square-foot building would be donated to Simmons College for educational use.
    Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Clergywoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergywoman. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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