archdeacon

Example Sentences

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By the age of 24, Laval was ordained a priest; he was quickly named an archdeacon and eventually a bishop.

From Salon

She was proud of her mother Mina, who gave up office work to train as a teacher and later joined the priesthood, becoming the Church of England's first black female archdeacon.

From BBC

Keeping the heads down was for decades the lived Protestant experience, according to Gordon Linney, the former Church of Ireland archdeacon of Dublin.

From BBC

Currently, there are just five minority ethnic bishops and nine deans, archdeacons, and senior staff.

From BBC

Two sisters found dead in a London park after a birthday party at the weekend were the daughters of the Church of England’s first female archdeacon from a black and minority ethnic background.

From The Guardian