archiepiscopacy

American  

[ahr-kee-i-pis-kuh-puh-see] / ˌɑr ki ɪˈpɪs kə pə si /

noun

1. a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.

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Etymology

Origin of archiepiscopacy

1635–45; < Late Latin archiepiscop ( us ) archbishop + -acy

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archiepiscopacy

This amiable prelate declined, in 1801, the Parisian archiepiscopacy, proffered him by Buonaparte, and died in London, in December 1804, in the arms of Monsieur, afterwards Charles the Tenth.-E.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

But Dering appears only really to have aimed at the abolition of Laud's archiepiscopacy, and to have wished to see some purer form of prelacy re-established in place of the old.

From Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer

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