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rectory

[rek-tuh-ree] / ˈrɛk tə ri /
NOUN
parsonage
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In the rectory dining room before the vigil, the burly 85-year-old priest said he wasn’t fazed that his working-class parish has weathered so much since arriving in 1983.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Redbird – Set inside the former rectory of Vibiana, Redbird is a modern American restaurant built for sharing.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

Including servants, 23 people were crammed into a chaotic rectory where no one kept regular hours and money was always short.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Since its construction in 1862, the Essex rectory had been the site of alleged hauntings.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

In March, a stranger paid a visit to the rectory, but it was not some gentleman come to claim me as his heir.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

The data covers periods from 2018 to 2021 and the reports include images of certain addresses with location pings marked on top, such as parishes, rectories and seminaries.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

Her novels pump in boosts of old-world elegance via jaunts to Italy or roomy seaside rectories; her white characters inhabit the world of wine-swirlers and are often impoverished by choice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

At Mr Stanley's parish in New Town and Lenah Valley, four buildings including a church and two rectories have been earmarked for sale.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2018

Jane Austen, Tennyson, and the Brontë sisters were all the product of rectories and parsonages.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015

All forty churches and eleven rectories that make up the diocese give food and money for the effort.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario



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