primatial
- a word derived from primate.
Example Sentences
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Church officials would like the Hungarians to offer Mindszenty a pardon and restore him briefly to his primatial see�but the Hungarians have evidently refused.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Archbishop of Westminster, England's primatial Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eventually the change may mean that the diocese of Washington will become a primatial see for the U. S. such as Canterbury is for England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its bishopric founded by St Trophimus in the 1st century, was in the 5th century the primatial see of Gaul; it was suppressed in 1790.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
In 1782, Doctor O'Reilly was made administrator of the arch-diocess of Armagh; and on the death of the late Doctor Blake, in 1787, was promoted to the metropolitan chair of that primatial see.
From A Chronological Table of the Catholic Primates of Ireland With the Years in Which They Succeeded to the Metropolitan Sees of Armagh, Dublin, Cashell and Tuam by Murphy, John
