archbishop
IPA: ˈɑrtʃbˈɪʃʌp
noun
- A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
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Examples of "archbishop" in Sentences
- The archbishop is keeping a sharp eye on what you actually say.
- The former archbishop is now chief guardian of Catholic doctrine worldwide.
- Johannesburg's Catholic community will soon h! ave their first black bishop who will have the title archbishop, Father Stan
- A bitter, rabid weasel of a man who thought that possessing the title of archbishop somehow made him immune to the laws of God and men, and a twerpy, unscrupulous banker who had more ambition than sense.
- At the start of a Mass, Turin archbishop Cardinal Severino Poletto welcomed Benedict to join those who have silently prayed before the sepia-toned cloth, "this sacred linen that speaks in an impressive way of the Passion of Christ."
- I will not stop to inquire whether our guest may or may not have looked backward, through rather too long a period for us, to some remote and distant time when he might possibly bear some far-off likeness to a certain Spanish archbishop whom Gil Blas once served.
- But the archbishop is perhaps the most powerful member of a global alliance of conservative bishops and theologians, generously supported by foundations and individual donors in the United States, who seek to dominate the Anglican Communion and expel those who oppose them, particularly the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
- [_Endorsed_: "In order that the decrees above inserted, ordering that the missionaries of the Filipinas Islands have no prisons or jails; that they may not condemn, except those who have commission from the archbishop; and that they appoint no other fiscals than those whom he shall assign them; notwithstanding the decrees that were given ordering no innovation in the former practice, be followed in the appointment of the said fiscals."] _Letter to the archbishop_
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