monsignor

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Recent Examples of monsignor The plan is to film Samson (as Jefferson) walking out with the hopes that people will believe the monsignor's risen from the dead. Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 12 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
Noun
  • George was a highly influential, politically astute prelate who died almost a decade before Leo XIV’s election.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Now both prosper: Spider spins undisturbed in the cottage rafters, and Gout affixes herself to a prelate, condemning him to a life in bed.
    Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Plans began shortly after the Chicago native became pope in May.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, who is a close ally of Leo, told Reuters that the pope was taking up the mantle of a long line of popes who have urged world leaders to ​turn away from war.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Cohen is now the dean of the gerontology school at the University of Southern California, and his lab has identified many more peptides.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Courtney Crappell is the current dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Among them was Sandra Olewine, a bishop of the United Methodist Church’s California-Nevada Conference.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Primal Fear charts the story of a Chicago defense attorney who believes that his altar boy client is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • During the service, the archbishop and priests carried a cross down the cathedral’s center aisle in an emotions-stirring moment for those who witnessed the traditional procession.
    Holly Andres, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The rebuke by an archbishop known as one of the more conservative Catholic figures will come as a shock to many conservative Catholics.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
    Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • The Rev. Allen D. Timm, executive presbyter of the Presbytery Church in Detroit, said the church is waiting to hear from the general assembly as to when volunteers will be dispatched to Houston.
    Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • The first is the strikingly Gothic diocesan throne, which sits in the cathedral choir and dates from the Victorian era.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The abbot of Wat Saman Rattanaram in Chachoengsao province, about 50 miles east of Bangkok, warned that cremation services may have to be suspended.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Phommasan, a native of Laos and abbot at a Buddhist temple in Snellville, was recently fitted with a prosthetic leg at Mercer University.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026

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“Monsignor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsignor. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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