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The group who rents out the synagogue decided that women are allowed to pants, though Barbara notes that she’s never seen the pastor’s wife in anything but skirts or dresses.
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Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
Last year, the convention narrowly rejected a constitutional ban on female pastors, a measure that required a two-thirds majority to pass.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 11 June 2025
Steiger's congregation pitches in to buy a new car for the pastor, which frankly could have been an alternate film ending (with a Ford sponsorship).
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 8 June 2025
In 1979, the Rev. Cedric Britt, 26, became the youngest pastor in Mount Gilead Baptist history and served until his death in 2009.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
Last year, the convention narrowly rejected a constitutional ban on female pastors, a measure that required a two-thirds majority to pass.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 11 June 2025
Steiger's congregation pitches in to buy a new car for the pastor, which frankly could have been an alternate film ending (with a Ford sponsorship).
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 8 June 2025
In 1979, the Rev. Cedric Britt, 26, became the youngest pastor in Mount Gilead Baptist history and served until his death in 2009.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
Noun
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Near the end of the service, the rector announced who the pope was — an American-born from Chicago.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2025
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In a recording of a FaceTime call shared by the Vatican in January, the Pope could be seen speaking to Fathers Gabriel Romanelli and Youssef Asaad, the rector and vice rector of the parish.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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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
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And there’s one collared clergyman hoisted onto someone’s shoulders.—
Katie Primm,
NBC news,
9 May 2025
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Members include a vicar with a lurid fantasy life, a clever and stifled housewife, a sorrowful retired accountant and a blowhard.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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For instance, in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, vicar for clergy Fr.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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Among the beetle-collecting country parsons of his day, it was often assumed that the world had been created six thousand years ago and that many geological anomalies could be explained by Noah’s Flood.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Sofa in collage by Peter Dunham Textiles; Hot pink laminate parsons tables by Two Worlds Arts; Soft edge chairs by Hay; Madeleine Castaing striped carpet by Codimat Collection.—
Michael Boodro,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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The collision injured Huss and killed his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Riddick.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
27 June 2025
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As such, a breezeway on the lower level helps shepherd cooling winds, as do roof apertures on the upper balconies.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
26 June 2025
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Leo spent 20 years as a missionary priest and bishop in Peru, and working side by side with Pope Francis, helped suppress the group.—
Amalia Huot-Marchand,
The Hill,
21 June 2025
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Columban monasteries remained free of the control of local bishops and were instead directly subordinate to the pope.—
Bernd Roeck
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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This interest followed him throughout his life, expanding during his education at King’s College London and Cambridge and into his work as a curate in Hampshire.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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