archidiaconate

/ ˌɑːkɪdaɪˈækənɪt /

noun

1. the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon

Example Sentences

Bryce, Master, 149, 170 Buckingham, Archidiaconate of, 174 —— John, Bishop of Lincoln, 22, 24, 220, 223, 226, 249, 273, 322n.,

From Project Gutenberg

The soldier had stuck at Major-General; the churchman bloomed unremarked in an archidiaconate; and though the Right Honourable Bailley seemed to have sneaked into the privy council, I have still to learn what he did when he had got there.

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