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Pronunciation: [pɹˈɛləts] (IPA)

Prelates are high-ranking members of the church who hold positions of authority and influence. There are several synonyms for the term, including bishop, archbishop, cardinal, patriarch, and primate. Each of these words denotes a specific level of hierarchy within the church and carries its own connotations and nuances. For example, a bishop is typically in charge of a diocese, while an archbishop may oversee several dioceses. A cardinal is a senior clergy member who is appointed by the pope and has voting rights in papal elections. Patriarch and primate are both titles used in Eastern Orthodox and Anglican churches, respectively.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    clergy, religious leaders, religious ministers.

Usage examples for Prelates

Cardinal York himself was a weak and silly, but honest and kind-hearted man; but Cardinal York was entirely swayed by the prelates and priests and priestlets and semi-priestly semi-lay nondescripts among whom he lived.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Still, so firm is the hold taken by the notion that the socialists are the special champions of social justice, that one of our most respected prelates has actually defined socialism in that sense.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He summoned all the prelates who were then in Paris to a meeting, and they joined with him in presenting a petition on the subject to the King.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Prelates

  • Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.
    Giraldus Cambrensis
  • The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
    Charles Hodge
  • If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
    Seán O'Casey
  • Take heed, therefore, wicked prelates, blind leaders of the blind; indurate and obstinate hypocrites, take heedAnd if that help you not, then ye murder them mercilessly with the sword of the temporal powers, whom ye have made so blind that they be ready to slay whom ye command, and will not hear his cause examined, nor give him room to answer for himself.
    William Tyndale

Related words: prelate, prelature, prelatura, prelate bishop, prelate cardinal, prelate archbishop, pope's prelate

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