单词 | pastoral charge |
释义 | > as lemmaspastoral charge pastoral charge n. Christian Church religious authority over and responsibility for a particular body of Christians; (now, in Congregationalist and Presbyterian Churches) a congregation or church in the care of a particular minister (cf. charge n. 14a). ΚΠ 1599 R. Parsons Temperate Ward-word vii. 101 Christ three tymes sayth to him..feed my lambes and feed my sheep..committing the whole churche to his pastoral charge. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 320 The Pope, as Pastor of Christian men, is King of Kings: which all Christian Kings ought..either to confess, or else they ought to take upon themselves the Supreme Pastoral Charge, every one in his own dominion. 1811 I. Mitchell Asylum II. xvii. 277 Edgar was called to the pastoral charge of this unsophisticated people. 1880 Amer. Missionary Aug. 237 Rev. Mr. Roberts..has been appointed to take the pastoral charge of the church at Paris, Texas. 1994 United Church Observer Oct. 65/1 This is a pastoral charge of 300 families with a part-time C.E. worker, active lay leaders and a recently expanded church facility. < as lemmas |
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