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• “Tonsures and minor orders (the officiating prelate is H.E. Msgr. Basil Meeking, Bishop emeritus of Christchurch, New Zealand):”

  2009 Ordinations for the Institute of Christ the King

• “Another Latin American prelate makes clear what happens to pro-abortion politicians”

  LifeSiteNews.com Headlines

• “The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages.”

  Miguel Cohen’s “Ulysses,” Part 2 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

• “The prelate was a man of a kindly disposition, and did not hesitate, in reply to a petition of the”

  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)

• “Reply Obj. 4: Augustine means that the matter ought to be made known to the prelate before it is stated to the witnesses, in so far as the prelate is a private individual who is able to be of more use than others, but not that it is to be told him as to the Church, i.e. as holding the position of judge.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Bernard Mac Mahon (1737-47), then Bishop of Clogher, who is described as a prelate remarkable for zeal, charity, prudence, and sound doctrine.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “There were at least two men in Ugolini: the Christian, who felt himself subdued before Clara and Francis; the prelate, that is, a man whom the glory of the Church sometimes caused to forget the glory of God.”

  Life of St. Francis of Assisi

• “On the shoulders of a prelate was the purple that had dazzled the world.”

  Imperial Purple

• “As always happens, however, the prelate was the only victim.”

  The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3

• “Then follows, in the same month of October, that stormy letter to some prelate, which is one of the most weighty autobiographical documents from the hand of Michelangelo in our possession.”

  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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