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- noun Plural form of
archbishop .
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Examples
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Herzegovina the so-called archbishops or metropolitans exercise, in union with the autocephalous synod, the highest ecclesiastical authority over the Church of such country.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The most ancient list of them is given in the ninth-century "Notitia" of Leo the Wise, where they are entitled archbishops and metropolitans, though they had no suffragans.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Since the sixth century metropolitans have been also known as archbishops, which title they share with titular archbishops.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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For it is my intention not to exaggerate, but only to relate succinctly what happened; and, although eye-witnesses of everything are not lacking today, to guide myself by the most truthful relations, and chiefly by those which are found in a book containing sketches of the archbishops, which is kept in the cathedral church of Manila.
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What was unclear to all but a few observers at the time was that the elevations did in fact establish the bishops as archbishops, that is, accountable no longer to the Archbishop in New York but to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople.
orrologion 2009
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Let us hope bishops and archbishops, rectors and priests in cathedrals and basilicas such as St. Patrick's in New York and the National Shrine in Washington will take notice of this one giant leap forward on the part of the mother-church of English Catholicism.
Westminster Cathedral High Altar Returns to Permanent Use 2009
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And rebuke any unapologetic excuse that they (from priest or fathers to archbishops) have been tried to use to diminish or negate the Catholic Church responsability for their acts.
Most think Catholic Church poorly dealt with child abuse scandal 2010
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In former British colonies, Williams has wrestled for control with conservative archbishops who see themselves as leaders of the so-called "Global South" church.
Centuries-old ties are fraying between English church, state 2011
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Our alert reader who sent us this footage also notes a number of other film clips related to the archbishops of Westminster, which I hope to post in the near future.
Pontifical Rites in the Greatest Building that Never Was 2009
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During this Mass, he imposed the pallia on the metropolitan archbishops appointed since the same date last year.
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