What's the difference between cathedral and minster?
Cathedral
Definition:
(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.
Minster
Definition:
(n.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abdelaziz Belkhadem, head of the ruling FLN party and a cabinet minster, said the government could be doing more but added: "Protesters in Algeria want better social and economic conditions.
(2) Neither of the two candidates in the 14 June election runoff, former finance minister Ashraf Ghani and former foreign minster Abdullah Abdullah, has admitted defeat.
(3) A few months after the arms deal rebuff the prime minster announced a review of the Brotherhood’s activities in the UK.
(4) And he was not above a spot of mischief on that score, imagining perhaps - and despite the prime minster's known stance – a time of closer European integration.
(5) We recommend that the prime minster give a clear and consistent definition of what he means by the 'golden thread' in response to this report given its importance in his thinking on the post-2015 framework and goals," said the IDC report, which made recommendations on what MPs believe should be considered in the post-2015 talks.
(6) Pint from £2.90 The Three-Legged Mare Three Legged Mare, York One of three York Brewery pubs (the others are the Last Drop at 27 Colliergate and the Yorkshire Terrier at 10 Stonegate), the Mare is particularly handy, as it's almost on York Minster's doorstep.
(7) She said as prime minster, she had achieved major reforms that had languished under Rudd, including putting a price on carbon, a tax on the mining and resources industry, a national broadband network and health reform.
(8) News of Iran’s apparently widening role emerged as minsters from the coalition met at the Nato HQ in Brussels for a summit chaired by the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Libby Lane (front) is applauded by other clergymen in front of York Minster.
(10) The consecration at York Minster on Monday of the Rev Libby Lane as the new bishop of Stockport shows that the Church of England has got at least one foot in the 21st century; the consecration next week of the Rev Philip North as bishop of Burnley shows that it still has a rump in the fifth.
(11) The Plantagenet Alliance want the remains to be buried at York Minster, claiming that was the wish "of the last medieval king of England", who was known as Richard of York .
(12) The deputy prime minister, Ehud Olmert, took over Mr Sharon's powers as the prime minster was rushed into surgery at the Hadassah hospital.
(13) "Some people say it's a bit undignified for a prime minster to make a sales pitch, I say nonsense.
(14) It was David Cameron, whose cynical prime minster's question time intervention on Baby Peter in November 2008 set the frenzied and hysterical political tone of the ensuing debate.
(15) Negotiations were continuing on Sunday night, hours ahead of crucial gatherings of eurozone finance minsters and leaders in Brussels, which Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, François Hollande, the French president, and Tsipras are expected to attend.
(16) Critics have accused minsters of “robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
(17) Speaking at the scene of the crime, his girlfriend, 16-year-old Cally Inns from Minster, Kent, said her boyfriend suffered racist abuse "all the time" in Sheerness town centre.
(18) Featuring an interview with communities minster Eric Pickles, it had 4.9 million viewers, a 21.6% share, between 7pm and 8pm.
(19) Waiting at the bottom of the plane’s steps to greet them was Canada’s young, charismatic leader prime minster, Justin Trudeau , who last summer invited the Cambridges to visit, and his wife, former TV presenter Sophie Grégoire Trudeau.
(20) The deputy prime minister found himself effectively acting as a go-between between the prime minster and Ed Miliband .