PRELATE


Meaning of PRELATE in English

noun

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In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.

Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the Patriarchate in 1652.

Primates and prelates exercised political power most effectively when they were moving in support of magnate opposition; against united barons they were impotent.

The prelates were concerned, as explicit statements show, primarily to defend the church's liberties.

The court of Gascony, composed of prelates and barons, was to be consulted to this end.

The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king.

The line of the living began with prelates in grand clothes, the Pope leading.

The newly elected prelate still needed ecclesiastical consecration before he could exercise his pastoral functions.

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