Catholic dignitary in India meeting English schoolmaster (7)

I believe the answer is:

dominie

'schoolmaster' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'catholic dignitary in india meeting english' is the wordplay.
'catholic dignitary' becomes 'dom' (title for some Catholic monks, from Latin dominus).
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'dom'+'in'+'i'+'e'='DOMINIE'

(Another definition for dominie that I've seen is " Scots schoolmaster".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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