presbyter

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Recent Examples of presbyter 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 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
  • On March 25 at Canterbury Cathedral, Mullally will be formally installed as bishop of the diocese of Canterbury in a ceremony marking the beginning of her new role.
    Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • This behavior would earn them a warning from the bishop.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • However, the bishops took the extra step of releasing a video of various prelates reading the message into the camera, a component that observers interpreted as an unusually direct and personal rebuke.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The Colombian prelate also recognised the call for the Church to move faster in tackling abuse.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The most recent abbot, Father Charles Albanese, will be splitting time between Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Oregon and Santa Rita Abbey in Arizona.
    John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The abbot later said the temple would cover her medical expenses, according to Pairat.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But there is still one more step in the long process of appointing the new archbishop.
    Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Last night, Temple Emanu-El held a special Shabbat service honoring Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who retired last month after 16 years as the archbishop of New York.
    Joshua M. Davidson, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In 2016, a team led by Su Yinquan, dean of forestry at Northwest A&F University, leased 14 hectares of barren Gobi land in Xinjiang to test whether Duzhong could survive and grow there.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The deans forwarded 54 courses to the university's president, and 48 exceptions were granted.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The family had been relying on food and water delivery from a local pastor.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The pastor told Lemon and the others to leave the church.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 5 Feb. 2026.

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