vestrymen
- plural of vestryman.
Example Sentences
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In the early 1850s, three vestrymen from Christ Church founded the chapel, where services were led by lay members and volunteer students from Virginia Theological Seminary.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
Much vexed were a group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd.
From Time Magazine Archive
As middle-class neighborhoods decayed into slums, vestrymen and clergy often gave up, sold their empty churches to Pentecostal sects or parking lot operators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before him, in the brown Gothic interior familiar to tourists, sat a score of the clergy, his vestrymen, and 1,200 members of the seven congregations of New York City's Trinity Parish.
From Time Magazine Archive
She does not suspect the opposition manifested by some of the vestrymen to that memorial window.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
