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ARCHBISHOP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bishop of highest rank
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("archbishop" is a kind of...):
bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "archbishop"):
metropolitan (in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity)
Instance hyponyms:
Anselm; Saint Anselm; St. Anselm (an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God)
Becket; Saint Thomas a Becket; St. Thomas a Becket; Thomas a Becket ((Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170))
Derivation:
archepiscopal; archiepiscopal (of or associated with an archbishop)
