What is another word for archbishop?

Pronunciation: [ˌɑːt͡ʃbˈɪʃəp] (IPA)

An archbishop is a high-ranking bishop who holds a position of authority over a group of dioceses or other bishops. There are many synonyms for the word archbishop, including primate, metropolitan, and prelate. The term primate refers to a bishop who holds the highest rank in a particular region or country, while metropolitan refers to a bishop who oversees a group of dioceses in a specific region or city. In some cases, the term prelate may be used to describe a bishop who holds a position of authority over other bishops, although this term is more commonly used in reference to members of the clergy who hold high-ranking positions outside of the episcopate.

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What are the opposite words for archbishop?

The term "archbishop" refers to the highest-ranking bishop in the Catholic church. Some antonyms for the word would be "layperson," "heretic," or "apostate." A "layperson" refers to someone who is not ordained as a priest or bishop, and therefore does not hold any authority within the church. A "heretic" is someone who holds beliefs that are contrary to the church's teachings, while an "apostate" is someone who has abandoned their religious beliefs. Other antonyms could include "pagan," "atheist," or "nonbeliever." These terms describe individuals who do not adhere to any religious ideology or belief system.

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Usage examples for Archbishop

It was he who at his coronation snatched the crown from the hand of the archbishop and set it proudly on his head with his own hands.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Stillingfleet's manuscripts were in the same temporary ownership; his printed books came to Dublin through the public spirit of archbishop Marsh.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Henry Bynneman, though not so high in archbishop Parker's favour as John Day, was yet recommended by him to Burghley in 1569, and deserved his patronage by much good work.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard

Famous quotes with Archbishop

  • If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
    Harold MacMillan
  • As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
    M. Cartmill
  • In each of the cathedral churches there was a bishop, or an archbishop of fools, elected; and in the churches immediately dependent upon the papal see a pope of fools. These mock pontiffs had usually a proper suit of ecclesiastics who attended upon them, and assisted at the divine service, most of them attired in ridiculous dresses resembling pantomimical players and buffoons; they were accompanied by large crowds of the laity, some being disguised with masks of a monstrous fashion, and others having their faces smutted; in one instance to frighten the beholders, and in the other to excite their laughter: and some, again, assuming the habits of females, practised all the wanton airs of the loosest and most abandoned of the sex. During the divine service this motley crowd were not contended with singing of indecent songs in the choir, but some of them ate, and drank, and played at dice upon the altar, by the side of the priest who celebrated the mass. After the service they put filth into the censers, and ran about the church, leaping, dancing, laughing, singing, breaking obscene jests, and exposing themselves in the most unseemly attitudes with shameless impudence. Another part of these ridiculous ceremonies was, to shave the precentor of fools upon a stage erected before the church, in the presence of the populace; and during the operation, he amused them with lewd and vulgar discourses, accompanied by actions equally reprehensible. The bishop, or the pope of fools, performed the divine service habited in the pontifical garments, and gave his benediction to the people before they quitted the church. He was afterwards seated in an open carriage, and drawn about to the different parts of the town, attended by a large train of ecclesiastics and laymen promiscuously mingled together; and many of the most profligate of the latter assumed clerical habits in order to give their impious fooleries the greater effect; they had also with them carts filled with ordure, which they threw occasionally upon the populace assembled to see the procession. These spectacles were always exhibited at Christmas-time, or near to it, but not confined to one particular day.
    Joseph Strutt
  • It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
    Anthony Burgess
  • The illustrious archbishop of Cambray was of more worth than his chambermaid, and there are few of us that would hesitate to pronounce, if his palace were in flames, and the life of only one of them could be preserved, which of the two ought to be preferred … Supposing the chambermaid had been my wife, my mother or my benefactor. This would not alter the truth of the proposition. The life of Fenelon would still be more valuable than that of the chambermaid; and justice, pure, unadulterated justice, would still have preferred that which was most valuable. Justice would have taught me to save the life of Fenelon at the expence of the other. What magic is there in the pronoun "my", to overturn the decisions of everlasting truth?
    William Godwin

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