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archpriest::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
| Type of | priest |
Examples of archpriest
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In addition to the archpriest and his assistant priests, a chapter of canons is resident.
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The announcement made no reference to Law, who has served as archpriest since May 2004.
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Formerly, the archpriest was the titular Latin Patriarch of Antioch, a title abolished in 1964.
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The pope gives charge of the basilica to an archpriest, usually an archbishop, who has been made cardinal.
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The mind behind the whole idea was that of Canon Karm Refalo who was archpriest of Qala at the time.
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For that, the archpriest is grateful.
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Archpriest Avvakum Petrov and many other opponents of the church reforms were burned at the stake, either forcibly or voluntarily.
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If he was really an archpriest under Innocent IV, he must have later resigned, but it seems more likely that this statement resulted from a confusion.
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In 865 Bishop Adalwin is found exercising all Episcopal rights there, and the administration under him was in the hands of the archpriest Riehbald.
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- A senior clergyman and dignitary
- An archpriest is a priest with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches, although it may be used in the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church instead of dean or vicar forane.
- A minister assisting a bishop in the administration of a rural deanery, or subdivision of an archdeaconry; also known as a rural dean
- (1) The head of a diocesan deanery. (2) In early times a special representative of the bishop.
- Official, 'the archpriest,' a chief priest, a vicar to a bishop, later a rural dean ; v. H.E.D. The term was in use in the 17th century, for Smith, the 'silver-tongued' preacher, speaks of ' priest, or priests, or archpriests, or any such like' : God's Arrow against Atheists. ...
