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archiepiscopacy

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

noun

  1. 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.

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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Archie Bunkerarchiepiscopal