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
It takes no effort of imagination to calculate what talk like that must do to a proud father and a mother who is a devout churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.
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She took a class 541 in the little Sunday school at the schoolhouse, not so much because she was an enthusiastic churchwoman as because it was the place where contact could be had.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
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
In 1979, during Pope John Paul's first U.S. visit, Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the organization for leaders of women's orders, publicly informed the Pontiff of "the intense suffering and pain" many churchwomen experience.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Congress also wanted assurances that the Salvadoran government was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials a year ago.
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Nor was Susan slow to recognize their importance to her and her work, for they represented an entirely new group, churchwomen, who heretofore had been suspicious of and hostile toward woman's rights.
From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma