Archbishop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Archbishop is a noun meaning (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.
Meaning
(chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.
More Meanings
- 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.)
Example Sentences
One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.
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.
Word Forms
- archbishops
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bishop, archdiocese, archbishopric, episcopalian, monsignor, episcopal.
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