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The mayor of Carentan-les-Marais will officiate at the wedding at City Hall, and Terens said a parade is expected after the ceremony.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

One of the pastors from our church will officiate the ceremony, so at least some people from work will be there.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2022

This fall, six women will officiate soccer’s World Cup for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2022

Referee Slavko Vincic will officiate the final as he completes a special hat-trick of his own.

From BBC • May 17, 2022

He is at present in this city celebrating confirmation in the place of the archbishop, and will officiate at the obsequies of the king our lord, of glorious memory.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander