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Recent Examples of prelate
The other eight cardinals are from all over the U.S.
Raymond Cardinal Burke, an American cardinal prelate who was appointed as cardinal by Benedict XVI, is known as a traditionalist.
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 6 May 2025
Other church officials assisted, including the Venezuelan archbishop, the Brazilian prelate and the late pope’s secretaries, according to the Vatican press office.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Parolin is a mild-mannered, thoughtful Italian prelate who oversees the Vatican’s diplomacy, which has included a provisional agreement with China over the appointment of bishops.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Echoing his time as a prelate in Argentina, Pope Francis was at times criticized from both sides of the aisle for his heavy hand enforcing Catholic unity on national and international levels.
—Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 6 May 2025
Other church officials assisted, including the Venezuelan archbishop, the Brazilian prelate and the late pope’s secretaries, according to the Vatican press office.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Parolin is a mild-mannered, thoughtful Italian prelate who oversees the Vatican’s diplomacy, which has included a provisional agreement with China over the appointment of bishops.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Echoing his time as a prelate in Argentina, Pope Francis was at times criticized from both sides of the aisle for his heavy hand enforcing Catholic unity on national and international levels.
—Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prelate
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The archbishop died in 1333, four years before Forde's murder, so Ela was clearly a formidable person with the patience and discipline to serve her revenge dish cold.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, issued a statement criticizing the bill and the House vote in its favor.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Chicago Tribune One of the many titles that Leo assumed when he was elected May 8 was bishop of Rome.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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The monsignor anticipates the new pontiff will pick up where Francis left off, advocating for the poor and for immigrants and pushing for unity, peace and inclusivity.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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The trial, though, proved to be a reputational boomerang for the Holy See, showing deficiencies in the Vatican's legal system, unseemly turf battles among monsignors and how the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Sep. 2015
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For over a decade, the secular government’s bilateral diplomacy with the pope has been treated as separate from ecumenism efforts between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
23 May 2025
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Modern popes have traveled extensively after their elections, something truly catholic in the original meaning of the word.—
Emmett Coyne,
The Hill,
23 May 2025
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This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.—
Fr. Goran Jovicic,
National Review,
13 June 2021
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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
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They would be led by an older, more experienced person – an abbot.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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The diocesan website includes a statement from Dallas Bishop Edward Burns connecting the need for social distancing with the story of the Good Samaritan.—
David Tarrant,
Dallas News,
6 Apr. 2020
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In the Catholic Church, this is generally a time of the year when dioceses ask their members to donate to annual bishops’ Lenten appeals, which fund diocesan operations.—
Nicholas Rowan,
Washington Examiner,
22 Mar. 2020
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The argument that Trump has violated the 10th Amendment is a clever subversion of a line of thinking that has traditionally been backed by conservative judges, said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Pesticides are unique among chemicals, though, says Melissa Perry, an environmental epidemiologist and dean of George Mason’s College of Public Health.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
5 June 2025
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“Prelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prelate. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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