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archdeaconry::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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archdeaconry
An archdeacon represents the diocesan bishop in his or her archdeaconry.
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Archdeaconry, e.g., the seven in the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe.
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Many Anglican dioceses group parishes within an archdeaconry into subdivisions known as deaneries.
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In 1616 he resigned the archdeaconry of Surrey and later that year he became Bishop of Bath and Wells.
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He is supposed to have died about 17 April 1578, since the archdeaconry of Lewes was vacant at that date.
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In the Church of England and many other Anglican churches a deanery is a group of parishes forming a district within an archdeaconry.
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It is an active Anglicanparish church in the deanery of Ashton-under-Lyne, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.
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It is an active Anglicanparish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Cheadle.
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In the mid-12th century, Preston was in the hundred of Amounderness, in the deanery of Amounderness and the archdeaconry of Richmond.
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- The territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
- An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
- A sub-division of a diocese administered by an archdeacon, whose authority was delegated to him by the bishop
- An ecclesiastical administrative unit, comprised of rural deaneries and just below the diocese, headed by an archdeacon.
