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Definition of Archbishop
1. Noun. A bishop of highest rank.
Specialized synonyms: Metropolitan
Specialized synonyms: Anselm, Saint Anselm, St. Anselm, Becket, Saint Thomas A Becket, St. Thomas A Becket, Thomas A Becket
Derivative terms: Archepiscopal, Archiepiscopal
Definition of Archbishop
1. n. A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
Definition of Archbishop
1. Noun. In the Roman Catholic Church and other churches, a senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a '''province'''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archbishop
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archbishop
Literary usage of Archbishop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"archbishop Carroll was succeeded by Leonard Neale, a native of Maryland. ...
archbishop Neale erected the community of teachers into a house of the Order of ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1905)
"2 This duty has also been ascribed to the archbishop of York by so great an
authority as Sir William Anson in his Law and Custom of ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"All London was in uproar, and the archbishop thought it wise to don armour ...
Furious at the jeers of the mob on the way, the archbishop rushed into the ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the Roman Catholic Church the powers of the archbishop arc considerably ...
The disciplinary powers of the archbishop, on the other hand, can scarcely be ..."
5. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"archbishop. Give it up, my son! Get away from Clancy's alley! ... archbishop.
Then I '11 go to this meetin' t'night an' tell these men that the Church o' ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"I. The mitre of Simon Langham, archbishop of Canterbury, from his tomb, anne 1376.
No. II. That of archbishop Cranmer (who died 1558), ..."
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