Archbishop

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Archbishop \Arch`bish"op\, n. [AS. arcebisceop, arcebiscop, L.
     archiepiscopus, fr. Gr. 'archiepi`skopos. See {Bishop}.]
     A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often
     called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the
     conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also
     exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  archbishop
       n : a bishop of highest rank

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "archbishop":
     Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, antipope, archdeacon,
     archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal,
     cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain,
     coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch,
     high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff,
     pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean,
     suffragan, vicar
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ARCHBISHOP, eccl. law. The chief of the clergy of a whole province. He has
  the, inspection of the bishops of that province, as well as of the inferior
  clergy, and may deprive them on notorious cause. The archbishop has also his
  own diocese, in which he exercises, episcopal jurisdiction, as in his
  province he exercises archiepiscopal authority. 1 Bl. Com. 380; L. Raym.
  541; Code, 1, 2.
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ARCHBISHOP, n.  An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a
  bishop.
  
      If I were a jolly archbishop,
      On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up --
      Salmon and flounders and smelts;
      On other days everything else.
                                                                Jodo Rem