archdeacon

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Tony Pierce was your parish priest, your archdeacon, your bishop.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

By the age of 24, Laval was ordained a priest; he was quickly named an archdeacon and eventually a bishop.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2023

“In a situation like this, you feel you’re powerless,” said Abiade Lozama, an Anglican archdeacon based in the south of the country, which was hard hit by the quake.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

By contrast, Dr. Grantly, the old archdeacon, has limited administrative power but considerable real power, because it is rooted in a set of wide, deeply entrenched clan-family ties.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015

After holding minor preferments he was appointed archdeacon of Stafford in 1534 and graduated D.D. in 1535.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various