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archiepiscopal

American  
[ahr-kee-i-pis-kuh-puhl] / ˌɑr ki ɪˈpɪs kə pəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to an archbishop or to the office of an archbishop.


archiepiscopal British  
/ ˌɑːkɪɪˈpɪskəpəl /

adjective

  1. of or associated with an archbishop

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of archiepiscopal

1605–15; < Medieval Latin archiepiscopālis, equivalent to Late Latin archiepiscop ( us ) archbishop + Latin -ālis -al 1

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En route, she sings “I Have Confidence” inside the beautiful Residence Square, a stopping point next to the archiepiscopal residences in the heart of Salzburg’s Old City.

From Washington Times Jun. 6, 2015

There is no question, in any case, that he will still be performing his archiepiscopal duties, untroubled by the controversies provoked by the scrolls. ♦

From The New Yorker May 6, 1955

With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has mapped out plans for a vast new cathedral in Nicosia, and lives in a grandiose new archiepiscopal palace fitted with Greek and Cypriot furniture and 19th century French religious art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gray was always anxious to assert his archiepiscopal authority over Scotland, and to maintain it against the archbishop of Canterbury, but in neither case was he very successful.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

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