pulpit

chaire

Emplacement surélevé dans une église, d’où une personne s’adresse aux fidèles.

En anglais simple : A raised place in a church where someone stands to speak to the people.

• The minister stood in the pulpit.
• A wooden pulpit overlooks the church seats.
• She delivered her first sermon from this pulpit.

Expressions courantes : church pulpit, wooden pulpit, from the pulpit

charge pastorale

Fonction consistant à diriger une communauté chrétienne et à prononcer des sermons devant ses membres.

En anglais simple : A job leading a church and giving religious talks to its members.

• The church has a vacant pulpit.
• She accepted the pulpit at a small rural church.
• He filled that pulpit for twenty years.

Synonymes : pastorate

Expressions courantes : fill the pulpit, vacant pulpit