churchwoman
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Appointing a woman as Bishop of Oxford is an opportunity that should not be wasted, a leading churchwoman has said.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2014
Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman's widow and an outstanding Lutheran churchwoman, who denounced the church as too ceremonial, too institutional and, worst of all, too masculine.
From Time Magazine Archive
It takes no effort of imagination to calculate what talk like that must do to a proud father and a mother who is a devout churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
I then visited Mrs Arnett, a very earnest churchwoman, but permanently bedridden.
From The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
In 1884, churchwomen gave the quilt to the Rev. Andrew Judson Sturtevant and his wife, Ella, who were moving away.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2016
On Dec. 1, 1980, two churchwomen, Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel, spent the night at the American Embassy in San Salvador as guests of Ambassador Robert E. White and his wife.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2015
Through the sparse wasteland south of the Grand Coulee Dam last week crawled a motorcade with 59 ranking Protestant churchmen and churchwomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Congress also wanted assurances that the Salvadoran government was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials a year ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Leigh was, and had been from her youth, one of those noble old English churchwomen, without superstition, and without severity, who are among the fairest features of that heroic time.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
