prelate

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1. prelate - Noun

2. prelate - Verb

3. Prelate - Proper noun

Meaning

A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.

To act as a prelate.

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There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: it is the devil. Hugh Latimer

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me. John F. Kennedy

1395 – 1460 ), was an English prelate and writer. Source: Internet

Ariosto later said that the cardinal was ungrateful, that he deplored the time which he spent under his yoke, and that if he received some small pension, it was not to reward him for his poetry — which the prelate despised — but for acting as a messenger. Source: Internet

During his inauguration, when the cardinals were to kneel before him to take their vows and kiss his ring, he stood up as the Polish prelate Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński knelt down, stopped him from kissing the ring, and simply hugged him. Source: Internet

A CATHOLIC prelate made our day when he lifted “Rev.” Source: Internet

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