padre

[ pah-drey, -dree; Spanish pah-th re; Italian pah-dre ]

/ ˈpɑ dreɪ, -dri; Spanish ˈpɑ ðrɛ; Italian ˈpɑ drɛ /

father (used especially in addressing or referring to a priest or member of the clergy).

a chaplain in military or naval service.

Origin of padre

1575–85; < Spanish, Portuguese, Italian: father < Latin pater

“Mireles is someone capable of moving the nation, and moving it toward justice,” says the padre.

Mexico’s Holy Warrior Against the Cartels |Jason McGahan |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Padre Goyo has reorganized his CCRISTOS as more of a community service group, he says.

Mexico’s Holy Warrior Against the Cartels |Jason McGahan |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“No, the church has to be on the side of the most disadvantaged, of the poorest, of the helpless,” the padre tells us.

Mexico’s Holy Warrior Against the Cartels |Jason McGahan |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“I believe we are in the hour of the debacle of the institutions, they cannot be any more rotten,” said Padre Goyo.

Mexico’s Holy Warrior Against the Cartels |Jason McGahan |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Padre Goyo, with his clerical collar and his bulletproof vest, is an icon for those fighting drugs and corruption.

Mexico’s Holy Warrior Against the Cartels |Jason McGahan |November 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
We call him Tim behind his back because we like him and Padre to his face because some respect is due to his profession.

Our Casualty And Other Stories |James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham
Even to Padre Libertad, whom he had so fervently cursed the day before, he was at last gracious.

For the Soul of Rafael |Marah Ellis Ryan
Padre José was eighty years old, and he had been in Mindanao nearly all his life.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia |Paul T. Gilbert
The surgeon made the discovery, and said he would have the padre moved into the officers' quarters at the next stop.

Some Naval Yarns |Mordaunt Hall
Padre, all the land speaks peace today, yet you are as a threatening cloud over Soledad!

The Treasure Trail |Marah Ellis Ryan

padre

/ (ˈpɑːdrɪ) /

father: used to address or refer to a clergyman, esp a priest

a chaplain to the armed forces

via Spanish or Italian from Latin pater father