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Recent Examples of pastor
Bryant is senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, an activist and author.
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Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
The pastor explains the short move – just over 400 yards away from the previous sports hall – which places us outside the district of Gottsunda.
—Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
On Holy Thursday, the White House will host a staff worship service led by pastor Paula White, Graham, Laurie, and Franklin.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2025
The highlight is an interactive Easter story led by Village Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Jack Baca.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
The pastor explains the short move – just over 400 yards away from the previous sports hall – which places us outside the district of Gottsunda.
—Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
On Holy Thursday, the White House will host a staff worship service led by pastor Paula White, Graham, Laurie, and Franklin.
—Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2025
The highlight is an interactive Easter story led by Village Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Jack Baca.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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Marcia, along with the late Rev. J. Kenneth Major, then rector of The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, were among several community leaders who played a pivotal role in helping to calm the community during the unrest.—
BEA L. HINES,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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If clergymen are defrocked and lawyers are disbarred, then alcoholics are delivered, hairdressers are distressed, and pornographers are deluded.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.—
Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 2016, Pope Francis called Farrell to the Vatican to serve as the vicar general of administration and moderator of the Roman Curia, the administrative arm of the Holy See and the central governing body of the Catholic Church, according to his biography.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 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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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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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,
23 Apr. 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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As of the last survey carried out by the American Kennel Club (AKC) in 2024, French bulldogs are still first on the list, followed by Labrador retrievers in second place, golden retrievers in third place, German shepherds in fourth, and poodles in fifth.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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The images are still on my cell phone, photos taken of bears bleeding from the nose, some the size of a German shepherd and another who was called Grandfather Bear by locals; one of the first bears killed was a lactating mother.—
Susan Hargreaves,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
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Prior to his papacy, bishops and cardinals typically submitted their resignations at 75.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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By 2024, lay and religious women participated and voted in key synodal sessions previously exclusively reserved for bishops and cardinals.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 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 May. 2025.
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