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Recent Examples of monsignor
When the monsignor fell to the floor, Sharp then used a radio frequency remote control to unleash the fake blood, creating the illusion that the monsignor had collapsed because he was stabbed.
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Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
13 Dec. 2025
This go around, Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on an upstate New York town to solve the murder of a domineering and hate-spewing monsignor (Brolin).
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Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
29 Nov. 2025
The plot revolves around a young priest (Josh O'Connor) who's accused of killing the monsignor (Josh Brolin).
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
In 2009, he was appointed a Prelate of Honor to Pope Benedict, given the title reverend monsignor.
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Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
13 Dec. 2025
This go around, Blanc (Daniel Craig) descends on an upstate New York town to solve the murder of a domineering and hate-spewing monsignor (Brolin).
—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
29 Nov. 2025
The plot revolves around a young priest (Josh O'Connor) who's accused of killing the monsignor (Josh Brolin).
—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 Nov. 2025
In 2009, he was appointed a Prelate of Honor to Pope Benedict, given the title reverend monsignor.
—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for monsignor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsignor
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The group was founded in 1970 in Switzerland by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a French prelate, but five years later was officially suppressed by the Bishop of Fribourg.
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In roughly 33 hours over the course of two days, the diverse group of international prelates elected Prevost on the fourth ballot.
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The American pope has prioritized church unity and healing tensions with traditionalists that worsened during the Pope Francis pontificate.
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In Catholic teaching, the link, or communion, between bishops and the pope is a cornerstone of the church’s unity.
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Cultural exchanges like these counter distorted media narratives, says Mimi Sheller, dean of the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, who studies the movement of people around the world.
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As Verity Shaye, assistant dean for education at NYU, explained to me, medical educators have long struggled to assess communication and reasoning skills directly.
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The ritual confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.
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Under the church’s in-house canon law, consecrating a bishop without papal consent incurs an automatic excommunication for both the people administering the consecration and the bishops receiving it.
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William Warham, the archbishop of Canterbury, called for more copies to be bought up and burned.
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The diocese's parishes, schools, and other entities are not included in the filing and their operation should not be affected, the archbishop said.
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The first is the strikingly Gothic diocesan throne, which sits in the cathedral choir and dates from the Victorian era.
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Local Catholics attended Mass at the Cathedral of the Incarnation midday April 21 that Rev. John Hammond presided over, and Spalding will be the celebrant at an official diocesan Mass.
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The court found that Shi used his positions, including as the temple abbot, to illegally embezzle more than $19 million alone or in conspiracy with others, between 2003 and 2025, CCTV reported.
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According to a relative of Nathan who provided some of the sources Amit studied, the abbot reportedly also wrote letters to the Vatican and to monasteries in Switzerland pleading for a safe exit for Wolfgang.
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That was the end of things until last October, when the Washington County Attorney’s Office in Utah received a tip from Barry Diamond — senior pastor of Legacy Christian Church, where Vander Meer had worked as a youth pastor — that Bernadette may have been pushed to her death.
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Chadwick was a former pastor of Forest Hill.
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“Monsignor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsignor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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