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Definition of Archdioceses
1. archdiocese [n] - See also: archdiocese
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archdioceses
Literary usage of Archdioceses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yearbook of American Churches: 1st -40th Issue; 1915-1972 by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (1922)
"In 1853 San Francisco was established as an archdiocese, and in 1875 the diocese
of Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Boston, and Milwaukee became archdioceses. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"There are five archdioceses—Amida or Diarbekir in Mesopotamia, Seert in Assyria,
... The number of secular clergy in the patriarchate, archdioceses, ..."
3. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1876)
"The measure consisted of fifteen clauses, of which the first provided that all
grants made from State funds to the episcopate in all archdioceses, dioceses, ..."
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