Monsignor
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Monsignors,
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Monsignori
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a title conferred upon certain prelates.
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a person bearing this title.
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Etymology
Origin of Monsignor
1635–45; < Italian < French Monseigneur Monseigneur ( def. ); see signor
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You really think things have improved in Boyle Heights despite the nonstop procession of problems, Monsignor?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
That news reads like a bit of a genre-mashed Mad Libs, so we’ll slow down a bit: Monsignor Stephen Rossetti has been working in the Washington Archdiocese for the past 15 years as an exorcist.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
His new boss is the imposing Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, despotically played by Josh Brolin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Monsignor John Kennedy, who heads the Vatican office investigating abuse cases, said his staff was working diligently to process cases and had received praise from individual bishops, entire conferences who visit and religious superiors.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Every week his picture was in the papers next to Monsignor Pittini, overseeing some good deed.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Four mitred Abbots, several Monsignori, and Priors, Rectors, Vicars-general and canons innumerable rode in the procession, followed on foot by the humble army of parish priests and by interminable confraternities of all orders.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
For a long time Bunsen, like his master Niebuhr, was on the best terms with Cardinals, Monsignori, and Popes.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Francesco Monsignori ought not to be referred to Verona, but to Mantua, where he established himself, honoured by the Marchese Francesco with his confidence, and remunerated in the most liberal manner.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
He was on terms of intimacy with Monsignori, and had been a protégé of the sainted Darboy.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
I'm told that they are allowing some new class of people called "Monsignori," and even some little canons, to assume the distinctive color of the episcopate.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
“By failing to take any action, the Chancery Monsignors enabled the predatory and harassing conduct of Bishop Bransfield, and allowed him to recklessly spend Diocesan funds for his own personal use,” the report said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2019
When the wires grew quiet, Count Dalla Torre had leisure and opportunity to confer with Monsignors, Cardinals and even the Most Blessed Father respecting the Grand Prix whizz-smash.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monsignors Giovanni Montini and Domenico Tardini labored long in the Vatican as equal advisers to the Pope until Pius XII appointed Montini Archbishop of Milan two years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
The higher clergy in Christian circles, Bishops and Monsignors, were a favourite target, and among Moslems influential Sheikhs.
From Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
The Pope arrived at eight o’clock, and then proceeded to celebrate the communion, assisted by Monsignors Bacon, bishop of Portland, U.S., and Goro, bishop of Liverpool.
From Rome in 1860 by Edward Dicey
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