Use "pastorate" in a sentence

1. A few years had passed since his last pastorate, and he was

2. Our congregation was put to an unattractive choice, make do with supply pastors or accept the appointment of a retired pastor from northern MS who wanted to return to the active pastorate

3. His own childhood hurts had made him vulnerable to letting circumstances surrounding his pastorate get to him

4. I must have seen it during the first years of my pastorate here,” said the minister, “while I was getting the lay of the land, so to speak

5. Pond certainly deserves great credit for his labors in this department, in addition to the pastorate of Bethany Church in San Francisco, in which there are a large number of Chinese