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Pastorate

noun
1.
Pastors collectively.
2.
The position of pastor.  Synonym: pastorship.






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"Pastorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rev. Alonzo B. Chapin, in his History of Ancient Glastenbury, Conn. (p. 80), says that the church records, during the pastorate of the Rev. John Eels [1759-1791], "compel us to believe that the influence of the French war had been as unfavorable to morals as destructive to life; and that the absurd practice of bundling prevalent in those days, was not infrequently attended with the consequences that might have been expected, ...
— Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America • Henry Reed Stiles

... in which he could marry this girl and live with her happily ever after, but the man had too much common sense. He did not for a moment now consider the possibility of stepping, without influence, into a fat pastorate. He was sure that he could count confidently upon nothing ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

... deficiency in funds the Board could not send him that year. He accepted an invitation to assist Dr. Brodhead, then pastor of the Central Reformed Church of Brooklyn. Dr. Brodhead was one of the great preachers of his day. In Philadelphia, an earlier pastorate, "he preached to great congregations of eager listeners, and with a success unparalleled in the history of that city and rare in modern times." John Van Nest Talmage might have been his successor. But no sooner was the Board ready to send him than ...
— Forty Years in South China - The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. • Rev. John Gerardus Fagg



Words linked to "Pastorate" :   situation, post, pastorship, billet, spot, office, position, clergy, place, berth



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