Recent Examples on the WebBrooklyn pastor ‘Bling Bishop’ convicted of fraud and extortion
A flashy, jewelry-wearing pastor was found guilty of spending $90,000 of his parishioner’s savings on luxury goods.—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024 And he is known as a straightforward communicator who reinforces church teachings and has good relationships with priests and parishioners.—Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024 In late September 2022, officials at the Cathedral of St. Eugene in Santa Rosa posted a message on the parish’s website telling parishioners that Kristy was living within the Diocese of Santa Rosa without the diocese’s permission or approval.—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024 After a white supremacist murdered nine parishioners at a Black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, the cathedral put together a task force to evaluate the possibility of taking them down.—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023 Biden last visited Mother Emanuel in the spring of 2015, just weeks after a racially motivated shooter murdered nine black parishioners at the church.—Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024 The archdiocese isn’t cutting parishioners any slack this year, however.—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 The two congregations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, plan to combine their resources and their more than 140,000 parishioners in the state for the get-out-the-vote program, which they are set to announce on Monday at the Georgia Capitol.—Maya King, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 In the lawsuit, Hunter claims he was hired for three days in April 2023 to play a dead parishioner in MaXXXine, the final horror flick in West's X trilogy.—Shania Russell, EW.com, 14 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English parisshoner, probably modification of Anglo-French parochien, from paroche
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