archbishop

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(noun.)

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Anglican, Roman Catholic

VERB + ARCHBISHOP

be appointed (as), become, be consecrated, be enthroned (as), be made, succeed sb as

She was appointed as archbishop of the region after many years serving as a bishop.

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~ of

The Archbishop of Canterbury attended the state funeral yesterday.

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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.)

Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.

He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.

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A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.

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Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all t

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He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one s

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One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.

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The archbishop caused an uproar with his dismissive comments about the nuns' concerns.

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Laurent Weber is the archbishop of Portland.

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Sami met the Anglican archbishop in Dublin.

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