Meaning of archbishop | Babel Free
ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəpDefinitions
- A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
- A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight
- A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.
Equivalents
Afrikaans
aartsbiskop
Azərbaycanca
arxiyepiskop
Bosanski
архиепископ
Català
arquebisbe
Čeština
arcibiskup
Cymraeg
archesgob
Dansk
ærkebiskop
Deutsch
Erzbischof
Ελληνικά
αρχιεπίσκοπος
Esperanto
ĉefepiskopo
Español
arzobispo
Euskara
artzapezpiku
Suomi
arkkipiispa
Français
archevêque
Gaeilge
ardeaspag
Galego
arcebispo
עברית
אַרְכִיבִּישׁוֹף
Hrvatski
архиепископ
Magyar
érsek
Íslenska
erkibiskup
Italiano
arcivescovo
한국어
대주교
Lëtzebuergesch
Äerzbëschof
Lietuvių
arkivyskupas
Latviešu
arhibīskaps
Македонски
архиепископ
Malti
arċisqof
Nederlands
aartsbisschop
Polski
arcybiskup
Português
arcebispo
Русский
архиепископ
Slovenčina
arcibiskup
Slovenščina
nadškof
Српски
архиепископ
Svenska
ärkebiskop
Kiswahili
askofu mkuu
Tagalog
arsobispo
Türkçe
başpiskopos
Українська
архієпископ
Tiếng Việt
tổng giám mục
Examples
“Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.”
“He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.”
“One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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