parishioner

Example Sentences

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The church bell, recently restored with a gift from a new parishioner, rings out across the neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

According to one parishioner, American-born David Cruseno, "the threat is very real. It's very alive".

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025

At the nearby church, a lone parishioner rode into the school on a bicycle.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024

The jury also found him guilty of defrauding a parishioner, whose husband had died, of £1,000 between 24 September and 31 October 2016.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

I am not my own, he thought, but belong body and soul to every parishioner in Phippsburg who might have a word to say about me to my father.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt