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Recent Examples of apostolic
Approximately three-quarters of Christians in the region are Arab and tend to belong to ancient, apostolic denominations such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic and Catholic churches.
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Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024
His decision to appeal prompted Bruckner, who works as a ministry assistant at a Colorado nondenominational church, to ask Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, to review the court record.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
High-profile converts, including actors, politicians and even some former New Atheists themselves, have brought traditional, apostolic Christianity to the forefront of the culture war for the American mind.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 12 May 2024
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Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 27 June 2024
His decision to appeal prompted Bruckner, who works as a ministry assistant at a Colorado nondenominational church, to ask Pierre, the apostolic nuncio, to review the court record.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
If that’s the case, then the plausibility of traditional Christianity collapses, for its authority is based on the claim to have preserved intact the apostolic witness, the most reliable source of revelation.
—R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
High-profile converts, including actors, politicians and even some former New Atheists themselves, have brought traditional, apostolic Christianity to the forefront of the culture war for the American mind.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 12 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apostolic
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The lime-green Met Gala look, May 2018 Photography Shutterstock Miuccia wasn’t about episcopal tailoring or a gilded colour palette for 2018’s Met Gala, themed Heavenly Bodies and the Catholic Imagination.—
Julia Hobbs,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2024
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Congregations have been disaffiliating by vote in individual episcopal area conferences, and more than 4,000 congregations have already disaffiliated under the law, including 71 previously in Kentucky.—
Caleb Wiegandt,
The Courier-Journal,
5 June 2023
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Meanwhile, the historical epic The Brutalist and musical Wicked were nominated for 10 Oscars each, while the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and papal thriller Conclave were next with eight nominations each.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The first signed bottle, a 10-year-aged bourbon with a proof of 132.6, is one of 149 of its kind and displays the papal coat of arms in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' election.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
20 Nov. 2024
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My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.—
Elisa Gonzalez,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Trump will receive a briefing on recovery efforts and then travel to a small town outside Asheville to meet with residents who have been helped by Samaritan’s Purse, a humanitarian organization headed by evangelical leader Franklin Graham.—
Will Weissert,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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Powerbrokers within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the clerical establishment have had years to prepare for succession.—
Ian Bremmer,
TIME,
2 Feb. 2025
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Another is among the voters who claim that their registration application was filled out correctly and that a clerical error is likely to blame.—
Doug Bock Clark,
ProPublica,
27 Jan. 2025
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Lebanon’s system of government requires the new president to convene consultations with lawmakers to nominate a Sunni Muslim prime minister to form a new cabinet, a process that can often be protracted as factions barter over ministerial portfolios.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
9 Jan. 2025
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At the time, legal experts said that wasn't true, that the vice president's role in certification, even according to the original Electoral Count Act, was purely ministerial.—
Miles Parks,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2025
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Reach out to social services groups such as Lutheran Social Service, churches, senior dining programs, or local pastoral associations.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Baseball’s pastoral veneer was shattered once before, by a gambling scandal that created the need for a commissioner in 1920.—
Tyler Kepner,
The Athletic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Prosperity is lauded dozens of times in the Book of Mormon, so knocking for commissions can feel almost sacerdotal.—
Tad Friend,
The New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2022
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Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.—
Conor Friedersdorf,
The Atlantic,
1 Aug. 2017
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The prose is confiding and, in places, pontifical.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2020
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That revelation, coupled with other recent pontifical critiques, have quickly dissolved the notion that the Dec. 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a symbolic leader of the church’s conservative wing, might lessen the opposition to Francis.—
Stefano Pitrelli,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2023
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“Apostolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apostolic. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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