churchmen in English

noun
1
a male member of the Christian clergy or of a church.
Or perhaps the remark was a mere evasion, a way of saying politely to a prominent churchman that Africans desperately need to end the culture of impunity.

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1. How do some churchmen acknowledge their bloodguilt?

2. One of Kenya's leading churchmen has called on the government to resign.

3. Perhaps Altitudinarian should give Nockles Awards to distinguished High Churchmen today

4. Despite the adulation of the court and Parisians, Molière's satires attracted criticism from churchmen.

5. “Churchmen, including high officials of both Protestant and Catholic denominations, were recruited en masse as secret informers.

6. Synonyms for Canonry include clergy, ministry, churchmen, clergymen, clerics, ecclesiastics, priesthood, church, clergywomen and cloth

7. Under Anne, High Churchmen became preoccupied with trying to eradicate the practice of occasional conformity.

8. FROM near the middle of the second century of our Common Era through its end, there appeared churchmen who are today called Apologists.

9. The Barmen Declaration was drafted by a group of German churchmen, theologians, and leaders in the city of Barmen in May 1934

10. Gregory liked Guntram because of his benefactions to the Church and his regard for churchmen, although he does not hide his weaknesses.

11. The city was founded (9 B.C.) as Castrum ad Confluentes by Drusus. It was prominent in Carolingian times as a residence of the Frankish kings and as a meeting place for churchmen

12. Thus, Jesus and his apostles taught that he was “the Son of God,” but it was later churchmen who developed the idea of “God the Son.”

13. “Almost immediately after the Christians of the Empire received legal status the leading churchmen began to give the magistrates advice on how to conduct themselves in office,” notes theologian Robert Culver.

14. It has been argued that because of the decaying state of the Celtic Church, abbacies in this time period “were often held by laymen, who drew the revenues and appointed churchmen to perform the ecclesiastical offices.”

15. Ammirato argues for both "antichita" (consisting of "many degrees" or many generations of nobility) and "splendore" (Baronages, title, and dignities "in accord with our customs," which could include churchmen, such as popes, cardinals, and bishops).

16. Cardinal John Henry Newman, in the nineteenth century, claimed that those who attack the Church can only point to the Galileo case, which to many historians does not prove the Church's opposition to science since many of the churchmen at that time were encouraged by the Church to continue their research.