pastorate
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His pastorates traversed Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota before he settled in Spokane, where he was renowned for inspiring sermons, a plummy voice and palpable charisma.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched a long-term plan to reallocate resources over several years, including folding parishes into a smaller number of worship centers called pastorates.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2017
Moderator Vance, tall, lean, large-boned, has held four big-city pastorates in his 47 years of preaching, has been Moderator of the Maryland, Chicago and Detroit Presbyteries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Returning to California in 1936, Kennedy was assigned to pastorates in San Jose and Palo Alto be fore moving outside the Western Jurisdiction to the St. Paul Methodist Church in Lincoln, Neb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was ordained to the ministry of the Baptist Church at Waterville, Maine, in 1834, where he occupied pastorates from 1834 until 1842, and at Newton, Massachusetts, 1842 to 1854.
From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)
