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a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church searched for a priest who could perform an exorcism
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Recent Examples of priest Reuters spoke to a local priest, Fadi Falfel, who said the cross was part of a small shrine in the garden of a family living on the edge of the village. —
Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026 In July 2025, Israel struck the only Catholic Church in Gaza, killing at least three people and wounding its priest. —April 20, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026 The others include a teenage star of video games; a young woman awaiting a heart transplant; a priest with a vow of silence; a guard with a grudge against the bank; a fake receptionist; and Ernest’s fiancé, Juliette. —Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026 The latter spent almost five decades deeply engaged with the church as a priest, a missionary and a cardinal before being elected pontiff in May last year. —USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for priest
Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026 In July 2025, Israel struck the only Catholic Church in Gaza, killing at least three people and wounding its priest. —April 20, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026 The others include a teenage star of video games; a young woman awaiting a heart transplant; a priest with a vow of silence; a guard with a grudge against the bank; a fake receptionist; and Ernest’s fiancé, Juliette. —Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026 The latter spent almost five decades deeply engaged with the church as a priest, a missionary and a cardinal before being elected pontiff in May last year. —USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for priest
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Better to stay clean and inconspicuous, like hotel artwork, which was fine for a preacher’s son.— Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
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The Sight & Sound production in honor of America’s 250th anniversary ths year explores the friendship between firebrand preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and how Franklin’s resulting recognition of the role of faith changed history.— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Apr. 2026
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Analysts and clerics are keen to stress the overall importance of this visit to the continent.— Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026
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Leo spoke during a gathering of top bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, an Eastern Rite Catholic church whose clerics are in Rome to elect a new patriarch.— Brian Dakss, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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The clergyman warns that failure to do so would jeopardize the future of Iran as well as the stability of the entire Middle East, unleashing an even more volatile and repressive regime in the war’s wake.— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
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The clergyman warned, however, that failure to do so would jeopardize the future of Iran and the stability of the entire Middle East, unleashing an even more volatile and repressive Tehran government in the war’s wake.— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
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The 2018 agreement stipulates that Beijing proposes candidates for bishop, which the pope can veto, though the full text has never been made public.— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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In 1530 the Spanish bishop Bartolome de las Casas urged the Spanish Cortes to ban the enslavement of Indigenous persons.— Bishop Peter A. Rosazza, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
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Lula and Sánchez, along with ministers from their cabinets, are meeting at a former royal palace in Barcelona on Friday when they are expected to sign agreements regarding their economies, technology and social policies.— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
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Pakistan sent its interior minister and military chief to Tehran yesterday.— Brittney Melton, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026
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In 2010 then-primate Nicholas Okoh endorsed the ordination of women as deacons, though only in limited forms of ministry such as service in hospitals or schools.— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Still, Jos Valke, a deacon at the church of Wolder in Maaschtrict, described their shock at the discovery.— Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
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The show follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan Dardano (Taylor Ortega), a pastor-and-teacher sibling duo from New Jersey who stumble into organized crime after Morgan steals a necklace from a postal store to bury with their dying grandmother.— Kennedy French, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
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Cortes Vasquez is a pastor at The Gathering Place Church in Elizabeth.— Naomi Ruchim, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
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The reverend in charge of the largest cathedral in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has resigned after being arrested and accused of stealing more than $1,000 worth of baseball trading cards.— Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa thanked the late reverend for his work to end South Africa’s apartheid system.— Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
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“Priest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/priest. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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