Sentence examples for a priesthood from inspiring English sources

It's almost like a priesthood vocation to a degree".

This is not a sort of a priesthood.

Among the Babylonians and the Assyrians, a priesthood was established primarily to say prayers of intercession.

Rather it appears that they constituted a priesthood serving several religions.

True its architecture is dominated by astronomical calculations, implying a priesthood and time-related rituals.

But they're not a priesthood, and they don't have any authority to dictate anything to anybody.

So the unhealthy tradition was born of a priesthood whose members eschewed all feelings towards women.

In both cases, the people served a priesthood whose knowledge they had to take on faith.

We have a priesthood living in remote areas, interacting only with each other.

an elite, a new priesthood based on education as the ordaining sacrament.

If they were given additional powers to perform sacraments and run parishes, a married priesthood would become a fait accompli.