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Recent Examples of chaplain
Font’s Point was named by explorer Juan Bautista de Anza to honor Father Pedro Font, who served as chaplain for the first overland expedition from Mexico to colonize California in 1775-76.
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Christopher Easton, a chaplain with the Illinois Department of Corrections, said religious programming is facilitated throughout the Illinois prison system and has been a priority in the state for decades.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
About the only thing missing was Loyola team chaplain and superfan Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a star in the Ramblers’ NCAA Tournament runs in 2018 and 2021.
—Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
The couple exchanged handwritten vows in private and traditional vows during the ceremony, which was officiated by the Detroit Lions' team chaplain and director of player engagement, Sean Pugh.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
Christopher Easton, a chaplain with the Illinois Department of Corrections, said religious programming is facilitated throughout the Illinois prison system and has been a priority in the state for decades.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
About the only thing missing was Loyola team chaplain and superfan Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a star in the Ramblers’ NCAA Tournament runs in 2018 and 2021.
—Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
The couple exchanged handwritten vows in private and traditional vows during the ceremony, which was officiated by the Detroit Lions' team chaplain and director of player engagement, Sean Pugh.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaplain
Noun
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The highlight is an interactive Easter story led by Village Church’s senior pastor, the Rev. Jack Baca.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Its pastor rejoiced Have the flu or know someone with it?—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Specifically, the nuns pointed a finger at Urbain Grandier—a local priest and their confessor.—
Amelia Soth,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2024
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Its main purpose is not the creation of aesthetic beauty out of the materials at hand (life, pain) but selfishness: relieving the confessor’s desire to confess.—
Lauren Oyler,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2024
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The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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In 2016, Pope Francis called Farrell to the Vatican to serve as the vicar general of administration and moderator of the Roman Curia, the administrative arm of the Holy See and the central governing body of the Catholic Church, according to his biography.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2025
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Sofa in collage by Peter Dunham Textiles; Hot pink laminate parsons tables by Two Worlds Arts; Soft edge chairs by Hay; Madeleine Castaing striped carpet by Codimat Collection.—
Michael Boodro,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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Instead of forcing women to accept their message, missionaries encouraged voluntary reform.—
Jenna Deep,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Alfredo Sosa/Staff In 1830, likely seeing it as a means of survival, a Shawnee chief invited a missionary to the reservation to help educate members of his tribe in the ways of white Americans.—
Alfredo Sosa,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
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On a recent day, village elders, the province's Roman Catholic bishop and political figures filled the benches of a reception hall, waiting to meet with the man who will likely chart the future of Syrian Druze.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
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Pope Francis has named an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore the next bishop, or top official, of the Diocese of Providence, a 153-year-old ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church.—
Jonathan M. Pitts,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Apr. 2025
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Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
17 June 2022
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Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.—
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1 Dec. 2020
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“Chaplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaplain. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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