Sentence examples for main priest from inspiring English sources

"All of this was painted from a Haitian perspective," said the Rev. David César, the church's main priest and its music school director.

Long before the Vatican permitted Mass in the vernacular, Father Ford would station a priest in the pews to translate the mass into English as the main priest performed the sacred rites in Latin, parishioners said.

Addressing nearly 100 congregants after Sunday prayers, the temple's main priest Pandit Manoj Jadubans said: "There are people in the world today that are confused, they are scared, they feel threatened, and they don't know what to do, who to turn to, or where to go.... Remember a mandir (temple) is not just a place that we come and we pray.

The chief priest, Nobuo Kobayashi, hopes to rebuild the main building of the Kongoji Temple on higher ground behind its former site.

The main Nanbu line survives to the present day; its current head, Toshiaki Nanbu, is the chief priest of Yasukuni Shrine.

A nearby church sounded alarm bells as battalions of riot police sealed off Maidan, Kiev's main square, and priests led a prayer service as protesters linked arms to resist the assault.

Traditionally, Hinduism proscribed a strictly ordered social caste system with 4 main groups: Brahmin (priests), Kshatriyas (nobles and warriors), Vaishyas (craftsmen and farmers), and Shudras (unskilled laborers).

Although Barbier had been ordained priest, his main passion was for books, and in 1801 he was released from his orders.

Brooks first cast him in The Twelve Chairs (1970), a farce in which DeLuise is a greedy priest, the main rival to the impoverished nobleman Ron Moody in search of jewels.

Set in the present, again in New York City, which it uses as a teeming representation of the modern world, the book looks back on the 20th century, probing the circumstances of its three main characters -- a priest, a rabbi and a writer -- in such a way that the weight of history is brought to bear on their lives.

Oddly – and everything about Leine's work is decidedly odd – this engagement is effected utterly without any attempt at seduction through character: the story's momentum is dependent more on the clever manipulation of time-jumps and on the sheer strangeness of the narrative environment than on any charm on the part of its enigmatic main protagonist, the reluctant priest Morten Falck.