How to Use priesthood in a Sentence

priesthood

noun
  • What is the influence of the priesthood in today's society?
  • My life is going to be very rich and full because of the priesthood.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • His father thought he was cut out for a quiet life in the priesthood.
    — Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Saint Patrick had a vision, one that led him to study priesthood.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Two priests have the answers on their podcast about priesthood.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 20 June 2022
  • Black men also were banned from ordained priesthood.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These were, after all, the basis of the electrode caps worn by the cult priesthood.
    — David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, WIRED, 1 July 1996
  • For him, the priesthood is about caring deeply for people who are hurting in any kind of way.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Apostles are all men in accordance with the church’s all-male priesthood.
    — Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Apostles are all men in accordance with the church's all-male priesthood.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • To some members of the AI priesthood, that calls for a new approach.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • Brennan resolved to go to heaven, and the priesthood seemed like a sure way of getting there.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Hying said the calling to the priesthood is almost counter-culture.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 2 June 2018
  • The church celebrates the end of the priesthood/temple ban in a joyous and soulful gala.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Celibacy reveals the very essence of the Christian priesthood.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Malone emphasized the importance of the priesthood to the life of the church.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
  • The pastor had none of the religious training of the Catholic priesthood.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The church lifted its ban on Black men holding the priesthood in 1978.
    — Aaron Falk, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • And what if the Roman Catholic Church were to do away with the all-male, celibate priesthood?
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2017
  • But Aymond asked the congregation not to judge the church or the priesthood by the actions of a few priests.
    — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The church, which has more than 17 million members worldwide, has an all-male priesthood and its top leaders are all men.
    — Holly Meyer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • More than 100 of the priests are dead, and many others are retired or have been dismissed from the priesthood or put on leave.
    — Marc Levy, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
  • More than 100 of the priests are dead, and many others are retired or have been dismissed from the priesthood or put on leave.
    — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Rick Wood Andrew Infanger is talking about his path to the priesthood.
    — Clara Hatcher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The next year, the church defrocked Father Geoghan and removed him from the priesthood.
    — New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • In Mormonism, any male members age 12 and older in good standing can join the priesthood.
    — Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 27 Oct. 2017
  • How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to [Christ]!
    — Paul Schemm, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
  • In the church’s early days, under founder Joseph Smith, a few Black men were ordained to the priesthood.
    — Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • During founder Joseph Smith’s life, leaders ordained Black men to the church’s all-male priesthood.
    — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Parsi priesthood is hereditary, meaning all the boys here have been born into priestly families.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026

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