archdeacon
Example Sentences
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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
"You had so good a chance," responded the archdeacon, nodding his head wisely, "that only one thing stood between you and it."
From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John
