Prelates in a sentence

As domestic prelates, prelates of the Roman Court, they had personal preeminence in every diocese of the world.

Sigismund was greatly angered, as the guarantor of Hus's safety, and threatened the prelates with dismissal; however, the prelates convinced him that he could not be bound by promises to a heretic.

The present college consists of seventeen prelates, six substitutes, and one sub-substitute, all of whom, except the prelates, may be clerics or laymen.

Long one of the church’s most influential prelates, Pell played an outsized role in religious affairs in Australia, having been a leader of the Australian church’s conservative bloc.

Many other prelates have expressed their solidarity with Bishop Álvarez, denouncing the violation of the most basic civil rights and religious freedom in Nicaragua, notably the bishops of El Salvador, the bishops of Panama, and others.

Recruiting a substitute speaker was a first for this pope and recalled how St. John Paul II frequently had other prelates read his remarks in his final years as he battled the effects of Parkinson’s disease.

Thus, it is deeply troubling to consider the possibility that prelates holding the office of diocesan bishop in the Catholic Church may be separated or not in full communion because of heresy.

And by doing so, Bergoglio would have the pretext of accusing these prelates of being “enemies of the Pope,” of placing themselves outside the Church, of wanting a schism.

He also is a spokesman for the bishops in Rome and one of three U.S. prelates to give a news conference at the Vatican.

The Premier then paid a visit to the Chief Prelates of Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters, Most Venerable Thibbotuwawe Sri Sumangala Thera and Most Venerable Warakagoda Gnanarathana Thera, respectively.

A small but influential “Francis party” emerged in the US bishops’ conference: a group of liberal prelates who owed their advancement to the Holy Father.

But the prelates tried to direct the attention away from the politics of it and directed it toward its human cost and why the Church cares about it.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former Bishop of Hong Kong, accused the Vatican of “selling out” loyal Catholics after it emerged that a Holy See delegation asked two ‘underground’ bishops to move aside in favour of excommunicated Communist-backed prelates.

Chechen prelates were freighted into Syria to pray at the mosque.

In a Dec. 11 statement, the prelates also called for the full repeal of a provision in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that would tax houses of worship and other nonprofits for parking and transit benefits they provide to their employees.

In a lengthy statement released Aug. 25, Archbishop Viganò called for Pope Francis and other prelates who covered up Archbishop McCarrick’s behavior to resign.

Truth transcends Princes and Presidents, Prelates and Prime Ministers, old and young, rich and poor.

Victims' groups have long said that the Vatican needs to better address how to deal with prelates who cover up abuse, and how to ensure that abuse victims have a clear way to report what happens to them.

A delegation of Polish prelates and lords confirmed her right to succeed her father in Poland in 1379.

As prelates, and therefore possessing the legal dignity, they were competent to receive and execute papal commands.