What's the difference between prelate and priest?

Prelate


Definition:

  • (n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
  • (v. i.) To act as a prelate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of those called to hear the announcement, the Mexican prelate Monsignor Dr Oscar Sánchez, said none of the cardinals had expected it.
  • (2) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
  • (3) Both prelated, lyophilized tissue lenses and freshly cut lenticules have been employed with good results.
  • (4) The frequency of iron deficiency--prelatent, latent or manifest anemia -- can be understood from the peculiarities of iron metabolism in this early period of life.
  • (5) The speculation peaked in February when, soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed he had decided to step down after receiving a dossier investigating the Vatileaks scandal containing details of a network of gay prelates , some of whom were vulnerable to blackmail.
  • (6) Training caused an initial depletion of body iron stores (prelatent iron deficiency).
  • (7) The prelate can also demand to see any document he cares to inspect.
  • (8) On 15 June, the pope appointed Monsignor Battista Ricca, an Italian cleric and former Vatican diplomat, to be "prelate" of the bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR).
  • (9) Since information pertinent to the effect of prelatent or latent iron deficiency on tissue iron is scare, the present study was aimed at producing this stage of iron deficiency in rats by phlebotomy and to determine whether the mitochondrial iron-containing enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) were affected.
  • (10) I’m labeled as ultra-conservative because I’ve been outspoken on issues that are politically unpopular and on the conservative side of the political spectrum,” said Cordileone, a balding man with water-colored blue eyes who serves as prelate to the approximately 500,000 Catholics in the San Francisco area, and was a key force behind the state’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage that was ultimately overturned by courts.
  • (11) Nicola Gratteri, who has battled Calabria's shadowy 'Ndrangheta mafia , said on Wednesday that Francis's attempt to bring transparency to the Vatican was making the white collar mobsters who do business with corrupt prelates "nervous and agitated".
  • (12) He joked about Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a prelate alleged to have tried to fly €20m in cash into Italy illegally, saying he "didn't go to jail because he resembled a saint".
  • (13) Six women and two men had ferritin levels below 28 ng X ml-1, which suggests prelatent iron deficiency.
  • (14) One month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria , officials say they still have no idea what has happened to the missing prelates.
  • (15) And one of the first actions Pope Francis took was to visit perhaps the most high-profile corrupt prelate on the planet, Cardinal Bernard Law, who remains a powerful church official despite having been drummed out of Boston for hiding and enabling crimes by hundreds of child molesting clerics," Dorris said in a statement.
  • (16) They also have to swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
  • (17) The null hypotheses were that there are no differences in the manifestations of sexual and aggressive drives during the prelatency and latency as well as the latency and postlatency stage groups.
  • (18) • Pope Shenouda III (Nazir Gayed), prelate, born 3 August 1923; died 17 March 2012
  • (19) The increased diagnostic 59Fe2+ absorption is a reliable and sensitive indicator of at least depleted iron stores or prelatent iron deficiency as caused by iron malnutrition or maldigestion, increased iron requirement in pregnancy, infancy, urogenital or gastrointestinal blood loss.
  • (20) New members are also meant to swear to defend the monarch against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.

Priest


Definition:

  • (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
  • (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
  • (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
  • (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
  • (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
  • (2) Other high-profile speakers include writer and priest Giles Fraser, and the writer Tariq Ali.
  • (3) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
  • (4) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
  • (5) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
  • (6) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
  • (7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
  • (8) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (9) "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.
  • (10) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
  • (11) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
  • (12) We have a catastrophe now in Utah with opiate overdoses,” said Dan Snarr, a member of the high priest group leadership within the LDS church whose son, Denver, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25 after becoming hooked on painkillers following a rugby injury.
  • (13) He's now regretting this: "I want to look like a priest, not a protester."
  • (14) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
  • (15) The church had already been under fire over the sexual misbehaviour of several priests in various Irish parishes.
  • (16) Since it started I have had claims from four other people that this priest abused them.
  • (17) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
  • (18) Two men were charged in connection with Grafton Close, including Catholic priest Father Anthony McSweeney, who was found guilty and jailed for three years .
  • (19) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
  • (20) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.