pastorate

NOUN
  1. pastors collectively
  2. the position of pastor
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How To Use pastorate In A Sentence

  • [538: 1] But, on the death of Hyginus, a pastorate of unusual length commences, as Pius, by whom he was followed, continued fifteen years in office -- a term considerably more extended than that of any of his five predecessors. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
  • The two churches will also become part of the same 'pastorate'. IcHuddersfield
  • In 1950, newly married and fresh out of graduate school, we accepted the pastorate of a struggling Baptist church that had turned for help to the Conservative Baptist movement.
  • Two pastorates in New York State preceded the world-famous ministry he established in Neshaminy, Bucks County, north of Philadelphia.
  • For nearly forty years his name has been linked with that pastorate, where he has maintained an undeviating witness to ‘the old paths’.
  • For most of his pastorate, Jim could count on Father Ed Dougherty to articulate the opposing view.
  • Then came the great change and, after training for the ministry, he was called to the pastorate of Alexandra Road Congregational Church, Hemel Hempstead, in 1958.
  • The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
  • In my first pastorate, I had often to battle with Antinomians,—that is, people who held that, because they believed themselves to be elect, they might live as they liked.
  • Still, I respond happily when people call me pastor, and I am convinced that the pastorate would have been a fulfilling lifelong career.
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