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Recent Examples of presbyter
This would be the case also for an apostate, heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon.
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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
Before coming to Birmingham, Webster had served 18 years as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Sierra Blanca in southern New Mexico.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 19 July 2017
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
Before coming to Birmingham, Webster had served 18 years as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Sierra Blanca in southern New Mexico.
—Greg Garrison, AL.com, 19 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presbyter
Noun
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The city was a prominent bishop's seat during the Byzantine era.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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The current practice is for the Vatican to simply announce when a bishop has resigned without elaborating.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Colombian prelate also recognised the call for the Church to move faster in tackling abuse.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Debates and complaints between prelates have historically been handled behind the scenes in hopes of maintaining an image of cohesion despite obviously divergent mindsets.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Oct. 2025
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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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By the 1930s the newly emerging field of genetics was growing in popularity, based primarily on the studies of the Austrian biologist and Catholic abbot Gregor Mendel.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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The first archbishop was appointed in 597 AD, but the role took on extra significance when Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Once the coffin was brought into the chapel with an honor guard, the archbishop blessed their remains, and each pallbearer was given a box to carry to the burial vault for interment.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Amaney Jamal, dean of the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, said Mamdani's political rise is breaking the ceiling for other Muslims in many ways.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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Chung, the former university dean, said there are virtually no chances for North Korea to give up its nuclear program.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Another friend was an evangelical pastor who grew up in the Jim Crow South believing that Black people were subhuman.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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As tensions boiled, clashes broke out and federal agents used pepper balls and tear gas, hitting journalists, a pastor and officers with the Chicago Police Department, according to reports and a lawsuit.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Born in a homestead just north of the D.C. border in 1930 and 1933, the brothers were raised in historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, where their father was an associate minister and their mother a deaconess.—
Petula Dvorak,
Washington Post,
8 Feb. 2024
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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.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 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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“Presbyter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presbyter. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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