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clergywoman

[klur-jee-woom-uhn] / ˈklɜr dʒiˌwʊm ən /


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The House of Deputies, which with the House of Bishops oversees the church, also elected an Indigenous clergywoman, the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, as its vice president.

From Washington Post Jul. 15, 2022

Dorothy McKinney Wright, 89, a Presbyterian clergywoman who had served from 1978 to 1981 as director of community food and nutrition for the United Planning Organization in Washington, died Oct.

From Washington Post Dec. 10, 2020

The Rev. Margaret True, 80, a special-education coordinator for Fairfax County Public Schools and a retired Presbyterian clergywoman, died June 16 at a hospital in St. Louis.

From Washington Post Aug. 27, 2018

Mpho Tutu met Marceline van Furth in 2011, the year the clergywoman moved back to South Africa from the US.

From The Guardian Jun. 9, 2016

"I does not, so far, my daughter; though I think the young clergywoman speaks very convincingly about it."

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Rev. Teri Peterson, a minister at St. John ’s Church in Gourock, Scotland, was on an eight-day Carnival Magic cruise with a group of clergywomen and other women in ministry when the incident occurred.

From Fox News Feb. 13, 2019

Her performance immediately joins the all-time great screen depictions of domineering clergywomen — right up there with the late Geraldine McEwan in “The Magdalene Sisters” and Agata Kulesza in last year’s Sundance-premiered “The Innocents.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2017

If there had been, there would have been a term for laywomen and for clergywomen.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Holley, Marietta

Because there was a separate class of clergy men in the world, but there was not a class of clergywomen in the world.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Holley, Marietta

Had there been clergywomen, there would have been laywomen.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Holley, Marietta




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