"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- (No. 5) Owing to the abuses of lay trustees all future churches should be consigned to the bishop when possible.
- "You can respect someone immensely, but argue with them right down to the nitty gritty," said Mr. Corley, the lay trustee.
- He eventually excommunicated Hogan in 1821 and then, like many American bishops in the 1820s, wrested control of the parish from the lay trustees.
- The parish was later incorporated under the old New York law with a board of lay trustees elected by the pew-holders.
- In the United States the employment of lay trustees was customary in some parts of the country from a very early period.
- Immediately upon his arrival, he also became engaged in the long-running dispute between episcopal authority and the lay trustees of St. Mary's Church.
- His entire tenure was marked by problems with the lay trustees of St. Mary's, which he had chosen for his cathedral.
- By 1976 the school faculty consisted of few Xaverian Brothers, and day-to-day running was taken over by lay trustees.
- The lay trustees were prominent Catholic Lords, such as the Earl of Fingall Arthur James Plunkett and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
- The parishes of the diocese were likewise incorporated with the bishop, the pastor and two lay trustees serving as a corporate board at each parish.
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