churchwoman
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Appointing a woman as Bishop of Oxford is an opportunity that should not be wasted, a leading churchwoman has said.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2014
Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before starting for the U. S. he offered his palace rent-free "to any churchman or churchwoman who will pay the salaries of the servants and the taxes on the house."
From Time Magazine Archive
Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
A devoted churchwoman, she grieved over the treatment accorded by the invading German Army to the priests and nuns of Belgium.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart
In 1884, churchwomen gave the quilt to the Rev. Andrew Judson Sturtevant and his wife, Ella, who were moving away.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2016
On Dec. 1, 1980, two churchwomen, Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel, spent the night at the American Embassy in San Salvador as guests of Ambassador Robert E. White and his wife.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2015
A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the 1,300 actors in the Drama of Missions, Philadelphia churchwomen sewed 1,300-odd costumes which were sent to Virginia to be dyed by students in a mountain mission school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Leigh was, and had been from her youth, one of those noble old English churchwomen, without superstition, and without severity, who are among the fairest features of that heroic time.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
