priest

Example Sentences

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Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.

From Barron's

Civil society leaders, Catholic priests and left-wing groups filed the complaints, which were endorsed by members of the House.

From BBC

Some traditionalists in the Church of England and the wider global Anglican Communion, continue to oppose the idea of women being priests at all.

From BBC

It sparked debates up and down the Golden State as many people at the time still held a high regard for the Franciscan priest who was canonized in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1857, a French Catholic priest planted the first coffee bush in Vietnam.

From The Wall Street Journal