monsignori

It is as well to say here, for the benefit of non-Catholics, that 'monsignori' are not necessarily bishops, nor even consecrated priests, the title being really a secular one.

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

A French dossier reported by the Italian press at the time of the embarrassing incident of the lefevbrian bishop Williamson, pointed the finger at several of these monsignori for the “leak” in the organisation of the Roman Curia, ascribing to them also intentions contrary to the policy of the new pontificate; and therefore on a collision course with the present Secretary of State.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Italy; there is a register kept there of monsignori.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

All the great company in Rome thronged to his saloons — Princes, Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders — every rank and condition of man.

Vanity Fair 2006

When priests took off their Mass vestments, they donned their clerical dress, with a special collar acting as a kind of barrier; and monsignori and bishops and cardinals became more flamboyantly sacred icons, in capes with red piping or large bishops 'rings.

Scandal Wills, Garry 2002

As for the general run of cardinals and bishops and monsignori, some are good, kind, loving holy men and lots are psychopathic, ambitious, egotistical power freaks as ugly as any that work the street corners of Hell.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

An Italian cardinal had just arrived with his retinue of bishops, monsignori, priests, and monks, and Simon knew it would be some time before the procession passed all the guards and the majordomo at the main door.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

He mentioned each cardinal, archbishop, and bishop by name, then several distinguished abbots and monsignori.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

Bishops, monsignori, cardinals, priests, and various lay-functionaries in elegant, antiquated dress moved to and fro in the great church, but their comings and goings were graceful clockwork which never paused, stumbled, or changed its mind to rush in the other direction.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

Nobles and monsignori crowded around to pay homage to these women, one of whom, Lucretia, was just sixteen, and the other, Sancia, a little more than seventeen years of age.

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius