Word: pfarrer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...days this summer the World Council will meet officially for the first time. Churchmen with such polyglot titles as archbishop, archimandrite, catholicos, exarch, moderator, pfarrer, priest, minister, pasteur, professor and elder will worship and confer with laymen of almost every Christian faith but the Roman Catholic...
...Pfarrer noticed his accent and began to question him. The boy admitted: "I am an American." He pleaded: "But please marry us. I'll pay 200 cigarets and 20 candy bars. How about it?" Although soldiers in the U.S. Army of Occupation are forbidden to marry German girls, the German minister knew of no law which would bar him from performing the ceremony. He married them...