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That year, Bishop Anton Bast was found guilty of “imprudent and unministerial conduct” and suspended from work as a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, a predecessor to the United Methodist Church.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the third week of their Quadrennial General Conference at Kansas City, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sallie Kingsbury would have given up the ghost without more ado, had she known what secular and unministerial passions were converging about Parson Thayer's peaceful library.

From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher

In addition, a certain unministerial pride stirred him to action.

From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.