Sentence examples for learned cleric from inspiring English sources

His followers see him not merely as a learned cleric, as they publicly claim, but the "awaited one," as I have been told in private.

As one of the country's senior clerics -- he is certainly considered a far more learned cleric than either Mr. Khatami or even the country's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- every word he utters carries extraordinary weight.

He may have been a learned cleric since all of the poems are based on Latin sources.

It was just a matter for a learned cleric to administer first Iran, then the whole world, until the Lord of Time revealed himself to his favourite nation and ushered in an age of justice and the end of the world.

Traditionally, the faqih was a cleric learned enough to render binding interpretations on religious matters.

The pontiff broached the delicate question of how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active.

Afsaneh's family was against the marriage at first, but softened when they learned that the matchmaker was a cleric, she said.

But for all her financial expertise, Ms. Neely was unprepared when she learned that the name of a deceased cleric from an obscure Islamic sect was on a deed claiming he and his temple owned the Kenwood home she had lived in since 2002.

Some Iraqis were cheering, I later learned, not for America but for a slain cleric, Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, whose son Moqtada would soon lead a Shia revolt against American occupation.

He read books about exploration and space travel, building model planes and rockets, and he also learned from talking with his mother, the daughter of a cleric, about spirituality, philosophy, religion and the meaning of life.

Cotton Mather, the famed Puritan cleric, led the war cries against New England's Abenaki "savages" who had learned their prayers from the French Jesuits.