(n.) The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
(a.) Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
(a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
(a.) Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(3) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
(4) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(5) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(6) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(7) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(8) The cathedral is losing £20,000 for every day it is shut.
(9) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(10) I would want to have negotiated down the size of the camp and appeal to those there to help us keep the cathedral going, and if that meant that I was thereby granting them some legal right to stay then that is the position I would have had to wear ...
(11) I think the fact that the movement has now become so public and widely supported gives it a resilience that means we can do this and it will make it very hard for border force and the government to make a move on these people.” There were also training demonstrations given at churches in Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide, while Christ Church cathedral in Darwin will hold a demonstration later this afternoon.
(12) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
(13) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(14) "Thank you for coming, despite some of the hiccups we have had," Tutu said to laughter and applause at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
(15) Relax on the bench at the foot of the cathedral, where Monet stood and painted his series of cathedral images.
(16) "I had received sufficient comment and concern from a wide circle of people, both within the cathedral and through the town and county, to have arrived at the opinion that your position is untenable," she wrote.
(17) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
(18) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
(19) People take pictures of themselves wherever they go, from cathedrals to airports to funerals , always the same face grinning at the camera.
(20) Other schemes include a plan for Paternoster Square beside St Paul's cathedral in 1987 and designs for the Royal Opera House.
Diocese
Definition:
(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other casualties in recent times have been the workers in the Portsmouth and Salford dioceses.
(2) It is a relatively junior role, which will make her an assistant bishop in the diocese of Chester.
(3) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(4) More than 1,300 church members in Osorno, along with 30 priests from the diocese and 51 of Chile’s 120 members of parliament, sent letters to Francis in February urging him to rescind the appointment.
(5) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
(6) The findings revealed that 1) nearly 4 out of 10 priests have reservations about the traditional church teaching on direct abortion; 2) 64% state that the traditional teaching is clear and that they are in complete agreement with it; 3) the younger the priest the less likely he is to agree with the church position; 4) hospital chaplains express more agreement with the traditional teaching than any other job category; 5) the proportions who disagree are highest in the two New York City dioceses, 6) the higher the education of the priest the less likely he is to agree with the traditional position; 7) there is a strong relationship between a priest's position on the tradit ional church teaching and his won political activity related to abortion such as writing to officials protesting the liberalized law, etc.
(7) The day after the budget, I visited a food bank in one of the churches in my diocese.
(8) There was repeated failure to assess the risk he posed to children, to confine him to his abbey, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse, to notify the police and social services, and to share information between dioceses and report matters to the appropriate civil and ecclesiastical authorities.” The report also criticised an order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Nazareth.
(9) A spokeswoman for the diocese of York declined to comment on North's decision, or to say how much local protest had been voiced over his appointment.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) It is exciting but I hope that in a few years it will be more normal for women to be appointed bishops.” The first diocese vacancy to come up after the canon law is changed will be Southwell and Nottingham, after the Rt Rev Paul Butler was appointed as bishop of Durham.
(12) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(13) He added that the Scottish church should abolish at least half of its eight diocese – a throwback to the size and power of the pre-reformation church.
(14) Far from disintegrating, Robinson's own diocese has remained supportive of him.
(15) Kaoma is an Anglican priest from Zambia now living and working in the US with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts due to threats against his life.
(16) Names and surnames of 88,383 consanguineous spouses collected in 16 dioceses of Sicily were analyzed by multivariate analysis to reveal and compare the geographic clusters obtained from both sets of data.
(17) While Vatican spokesmen continue to maintain that Seromba is a victim of malicious slander, the Florence diocese announced this week that it had an open mind as to his culpability.
(18) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
(19) It is not, of course, only the C of E: last autumn the Catholic diocese of Salford announced it was selling about 60 churches and losing half of its 150 parishes.
(20) Storm clouds are also gathering in Wrexham diocese where the position of fieldworker Maria Pizzoni is under review.