episcopal

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Recent Examples of episcopal While Barron's episcopal office concerns his parishes in Minnesota — where he is already widely known — his public influence stretches around the world via his books, videos, radio shows and documentaries with his Word on Fire ministries. Fox News, 28 Aug. 2022 Whitehead got out of the car, wearing a Fendi blazer and a large episcopal ruby ring. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023 These prohibitions weren’t very effective; a thousand years later, astrologers were active at the papal and episcopal courts, and within the entourages of numerous Christian rulers. Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023 Pope Francis' episcopal philosophy has become more complicated than ever as the leader once commonly thought of as a solid progressive has become harder to categorize. Fox News, 21 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for episcopal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for episcopal
Adjective
  • Other papal childhood homes have sparked the flourishing of unknown small towns, according to a USA TODAY survey of Leo’s predecessors.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • Such an epic event doesn’t come along every papal conclave.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    CNN.com, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • View Comments The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
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  • Brennan said the decision to end McHugh’s ministry was based on the recommendation of the independent Diocesan Review Board, a panel of church lay people and a priest who review allegations of clerical abuse and misconduct.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 24 June 2025
  • Is this the start of the collapse of Iran's clerical regime?
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 June 2025
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  • Today, Dassault hopes to cash in its experience chips for VORTEX, which has received €30 million (US$35 million) from the French Ministry of Armed Forces, with hopes for more support from ESA later this year after the agency's ministerial meeting in November.
    David Szondy June 27, New Atlas, 27 June 2025
  • But a final decision to proceed and commit to the mission will not be made before the space agency's ministerial meeting in November.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 June 2025
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  • Francis has long made ministry to prisoners a hallmark of his priestly vocation, and a Holy Year dedicated to a message of hope is no exception.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • One thing to consider, however, is that Leviticus is devoted to priestly concerns.
    Jacob F. Love, The Conversation, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Related Articles For the past 40-plus years in the Philippines, Natori’s mother Angelita Cruz has been very close to the nuncios (who act as pontifical ambassadors), the designer said.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
  • The only pontifical name that hasn't been used more than once is Peter, the name of the first pope, though there's no prohibition against doing so.
    Christopher Watson, ABC News, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.
    Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.
    Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • What truly reshaped my thinking was hearing personal stories from pro-life evangelical women who have had abortions.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025
  • But Christian Nationalism – an offshoot of evangelical Christianity, puts the focus on something radically different.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 June 2025

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