protonotary
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Of a religious vocation, understood in the theological sense, there appears to have been no pretence, but ten years later we find him a priest, with the rank of apostolic protonotary.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus
He was created a protonotary apostolic, and in July returned to Germany, as papal nuncio, with the celebrated bull Exsurge Domine directed against Luther’s writings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
And as Checco's influence diminished Savello's increased; the protonotary began to take greater authority in the councils, and often he seemed to contradict Checco for the mere pleasure of overbearing and humiliating him.
From The Making of a Saint by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Two children were born in England and four in N. S. He was protonotary of the County of Annapolis, and was a zealous Episcopalian.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
The protonotary was received with all due honour.
From The Making of a Saint by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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