mass-priest

He was a very still man, much as a mass-priest might be.

Westward Ho! 2007

The historic mainstream, after all, had its origins in risk-taking innovators, not least in the development of the original Anglican vision of the educated pastor in every community in the land – not a mass-priest, not a Puritan lecturer, but an animator and teacher and friend to a whole population.

Address at service to mark the 300th anniversary of Queen Anne's Bounty, Westminster Abbey 2004

In addition to their influence as great centres of learning, English law had enjoined every mass-priest to keep a school in his parish church where all the young committed to his care might be instructed.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

Aelfric, who described himself in his early years as "a monk and a mass-priest," and was later on abbat of Eynsham.

The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895

Lollardy had flourished among them so far back as the reign of Richard II; when the mayor, as folks told one another with pride, had plucked a mass-priest by the vestment on the way to the altar in All Saints 'Church, and had made him give over his mummery till the preacher had finished his sermon.

By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892

Britain, and soon sent messengers to Rome, that was Laurence a mass-priest and Peter a monk, that they should say and make known to the blessed St. Gregory that the English nation had received Christ's belief, and that he had been consecrated as bishop.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

Well-nigh in the middle of the church is an altar set and hallowed in name of St. Gregory, on which every Saturday their memory and decease are celebrated with mass-song by the mass-priest of that place.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

The first abbot at the same monastery was a mass-priest named Peter, who was sent back as a messenger into the kingdom of Gaul, and then was drowned in a bay of the sea, which was called Amfleet, and was laid in an unbecoming grave by the inhabitants of the place.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

He was a very still man, much as a mass-priest might be.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

Oh! that any should so forfeit their reason, as to enslave themselves to the see of Rome; that they should be willing to hold a candle to a mass-priest, and bow down to a strange God! Let us not say we will make a captain, but rather say as

The Ten Commandments 1692