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Archepiscopal vs Archbishop - What's the difference?

archepiscopal | archbishop |

Archbishop is a related term of archepiscopal.



As an adjective archepiscopal

is of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.

As a noun archbishop is

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.

archepiscopal

English

Alternative forms

* archiepiscopal

Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
  • * 1847 , Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century , Volume 3, page 167,
  • A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,.
  • * 1996 , Michele Mancino, 5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples'', Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen (editors), ''The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages , page 131,
  • Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum.
  • * 2010 , James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545 , page 177,
  • Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate.

    Synonyms

    * (of or pertaining to an archbishopric) diocesan

    archbishop

    Noun

    (en 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 .
  • See also

    * archdiocese * diocese * Excellency * Grace * prelate * primate