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Recent Examples of prelate
The new archbishop would become Milwaukee's 12th prelate, overseeing a 10-county archdiocese in southeast Wisconsin with 187 parishes and 101 schools.
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Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
Pell, maintaining his innocence, served over 13 months in Australian prison as his attorneys appealed the case to the High Court of Australia, which ruled unanimously (7-0) to overturn the conviction and quash all charges against the prelate.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
Those measures drew attention, but the punishment of the prelates from the United States, a country whose clerics the Argentine pontiff has long been skeptical of, has touched a conservative nerve.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
This punishment was handed down after a number of highly critical statement and actions the American prelate had made towards the pope, particularly his efforts to make the church more welcoming to the LGBTQ community and to give more responsibility to women and lay-people (non-priests).
—William Skipworth, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
Pell, maintaining his innocence, served over 13 months in Australian prison as his attorneys appealed the case to the High Court of Australia, which ruled unanimously (7-0) to overturn the conviction and quash all charges against the prelate.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
Those measures drew attention, but the punishment of the prelates from the United States, a country whose clerics the Argentine pontiff has long been skeptical of, has touched a conservative nerve.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
This punishment was handed down after a number of highly critical statement and actions the American prelate had made towards the pope, particularly his efforts to make the church more welcoming to the LGBTQ community and to give more responsibility to women and lay-people (non-priests).
—William Skipworth, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob will become the 12th archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024
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Accusations that emerged earlier against McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark and Washington, D.C., helped fuel the latest wave of the abuse crisis in 2018, along with disclosures from a Pennsylvania grand jury showing hundreds of abusive clerics in that state.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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Circumstances go awry, disappearance and murder are introduced, and Jérémie attaches himself to a geriatric bishop (Jacques Develay), and an unlikely bond, or at least a confidence between them, blooms.Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
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The big picture: Santa, based on the fourth-century Greek bishop Saint Nicholas, has taken many different forms throughout the years, but his generosity remains a constant part of the holiday season. Want more stories like this?Aïda Amer, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024
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When the monsignor was murdered at the end of Season 3, Ignatius was devastated.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 18 July 2024
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There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square.Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
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And that is a trip to the Vatican to see the pope and then to see the Italian leadership as well.CBS News, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Eight more popes — some of them disputed — stayed there.Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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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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King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
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The abbot told him to begin every morning by performing exactly 108 bows, a meditation exercise in Korean Buddhism.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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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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Law school in Houston After applying to Texas Southern University in Houston, the school dean called him and told him frankly that the school needed to recruit more Latino people to justify its existence with a diverse student body to the state legislature.Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2025
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That would certainly work for the ambitious Verlander, the dean of the trio at 19 big-league seasons.Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Prelate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prelate. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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