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ministered

  • past participle
    of minister.
    minister
    noun
    a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
  • past tense form
    of minister.
    minister
    noun
    a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.

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As a missionary, parish priest and later as bishop in northern Peru he ministered to the poor, denounced the excesses of power and lobbied for action on climate change.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

“They ministered to us,” the initially reluctant nuns told Lastovica.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

He ministered to thousands of weekly worshipers in the 2010s, including the likes of Kevin Durant, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, whom he baptized in the bathtub of a former NBA player.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

During his retirement, he ministered at St Mary the Virgin in Eastbourne until he was barred in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025

There, as they began to die of beriberi, diphtheria, smallpox, cholera, and torture, Duckworth ministered to them as chaplain even as he worked side by side with them.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown