as in clergyman
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Recent Examples of clergywoman
Patterson, an ordained clergywoman with a background in healthcare, joined the Legislature via a special election in 2020.
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oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clergywoman
Noun
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In 1781, a French clergyman named Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed to have discovered the ancient Book of Thoth while attending a stylish salon in Paris.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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One of the key details revealed in the emails, according to the reports, was from a Saints team spokesman who briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.—
Mark Puleo,
The Athletic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Fox is a Wiccan priestess, but Circle Sanctuary is inclusive of a range of pagan traditions, focusing on a spiritual connection with nature.—
Rose Conlon,
NPR,
20 Dec. 2024
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Someone who would later make his living from teaching the Course and selling his own tapes, lectures, and videos would have obvious mercenary reasons to construct the story of Helen as a true, reluctant priestess, the project as foreordained, and Jesus as the book’s authentic Voice.—
Sheila Heti,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Sep. 2024
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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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Mariann Edgar Budde, the bishop of Washington, at the National Prayer Service in January.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the pope has negotiated transformation mostly through words and actions, allowing for open discussion of LGBTQ issues in contrast to previous popes who ostracized or even punished bishops for bringing them up or ministering to the community.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 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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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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Castro went to a Jesuit high school in Havana, Belén, and was taught by Spanish priests.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2025
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The girl gave birth when Velez-Lopez started serving as a priest in Alexandria, Louisiana, according to the report.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Special prayer services are being conducted around the world, including Argentina, where the pope was born and served as an archbishop before his ascension to the papacy.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Also this week, while in the hospital, Francis has amended the Vatican's form of government, promoting two archbishops to new positions, and made contact with the parish priest in Gaza.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
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Two years later, the couple married in 1966 during a ceremony that was only attended by her mother, Avie Lee, the preacher and the preacher's wife.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
7 Mar. 2025
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According to Parton's website, the only people to attend the small service were Dolly's mother, Avie Lee Parton, a preacher and his wife.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Clergywoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clergywoman. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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