archiepiscopacy

[ahr-kee-i-pis-kuh-puh-see]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of archiepiscopacy¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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