Prelates

Word PRELATES
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What do we mean by prelates?

A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.

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The word "prelates" in example sentences

VATICAN CITY, 30 APR 2009 (VIS) - This morning the Holy Father addressed a third group of prelates from the Argentinean Episcopal Conference, who have just completed their "ad limina" visit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

VATICAN CITY, 25 SEP 2009 (VIS) - The family, "founded on marriage as a conjugal alliance in which man and woman mutually give and receive", was the central theme of the Holy Father's meeting today with prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Northeast 1-4), who have just completed their "ad limina" visit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

VATICAN CITY, 17 SEP 2009 (VIS) - This morning in Castelgandolfo the Holy Father received a group of prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Northeast 2), who have just completed their "ad limina" visit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A standing reproach against the prelates was their non-residence in the dioceses committed to their pastoral supervision. ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)

The Palace of its prelates, which is opposite, is now a farm-house where hay-ricks stand in the front yard, and windows have been walled up because Provençal winds are cold and glass is dear. ❋ Elise Whitlock Rose (N/A)

Now the active life belongs to persons of higher rank, namely prelates, who are placed in a position of honor and power; wherefore ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

What did it matter whether the Sixty were called prelates or not, if they were to lord it with more than prelatical authority over God's heritage? ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's rehabilitation of four traditionalist bishops may heal one festering Catholic wound at the expense of opening a wider one with Jews because one of the prelates is a ❋ Unknown (2009)

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's rehabilitation of four traditionalist bishops may heal one festering Catholic wound at the expense of opening a wider one with Jews because one of the prelates is a Holocaust denier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Benedict's decision has stirred controversy in no small part because one of the prelates is a Holocaust denier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So engrossed was he that at first he could not pay attention to the strange sounds in the air about him; for these cuffs, though black, were marked at their upper edges with a purpled line such as prelates wear. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

"prelates", each absolution being preceded by a separate responsory. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

No U.S. bishop has ever been disciplined for failing to stop an abuser and church leaders rarely publicly criticize their fellow prelates over the abuse scandal or other issues. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ceremony being over, the usual frugal refrigerium of Rome followed in the neighbouring monastery — a last memorial of the agape of love — and at this the Pope, the cardinals, the prelates of the court, and the monastic com­munity all took part happily together, much as we have seen it described in the Ordines Romani by Benedict the Canon. ❋ John (2009)

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