prelate

[ US /ˈpɹɛɫɪt, ˈpɹiˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɛlət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a senior clergyman and dignitary
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How To Use prelate In A Sentence

  • It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
  • Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
  • Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood (the most senior nobles), senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join.
  • But more strictly and accurately, rubricians limit the pontificals to those ornaments which a prelate wears in celebrating pontifically.
  • But in the 1893 campaign in Chicago, Moody was the first evangelical preacher that I know of who invited Roman Catholic prelates, priests, and bishops to share his platform.
  • `His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop"--he bowed nervously at the prelate `is well-known. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • This interdict, which is borrowed, except for a few minor modifications, from c. viii, "De privilegiis", in VI of Boniface VIII, is therefore reserved to the competent prelate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Italian-born missionary and prelate who introduced Christianity to southern Britain and in 598 was ordained as the first archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Tonsures and minor orders (the officiating prelate is H.E. Msgr. Basil Meeking, Bishop emeritus of Christchurch, New Zealand): 2009 Ordinations for the Institute of Christ the King
  • These two prelates spoke from opposite poles of the church.
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