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archiepiscopacy
[ ahr-kee-i-pis-kuh-puh-see ]
noun
- a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of archiepiscopacy1
1635–45; < Late Latin archiepiscop ( us ) archbishop + -acy
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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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