Sentence examples for church figures from inspiring English sources

Many senior church figures of those days were active KGB informers.

British government officials, family friends and church figures tried to prevent the marriage.

He also expressed his deep disappointment at the lack of moral leadership on the issue from senior church figures.

And his historic decision to quit, despite winning praise from many church figures, continues to raise more questions than answers.

The investigators based their conclusions on previously confidential Dublin and Vatican documents and interviews with church figures.

This conservative nation has been shaken since the matter became public this year, staining respected church figures who protected Father Karadima.

In the mid to late 1980s the bishop of Durham was a public figure in the way no church figure has quite managed since.

The senior church figure called for a specially-constituted panel of judges with a "proven sensitivity and understanding of religious issues" to hear the case.

He became an important church figure four years later when he defended Pope Innocent II, whose claim to the papacy was threatened by Antipope Anacletus II.

And neither party in power would stop jailing 17-year-olds with adults, in what one church figure said was a human rights abuse that violated international conventions.

Mr. Pulsifer, the senior minister at the church, figured that there was no better person to do that than Rabbi Rubinstein himself.