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Archbishopric meaning
The rank or office of an archbishop. | The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
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The prelate had previously served as the bishop of the Mar del Plata diocese from 2017 until his appointment to the archbishopric last year.
These are the older ones, whom the archbishopric considers outside the sedevacantist manifesto and the schismatic declaration.
After Augustine's death in 604, Canterbury continued to be the site of the southern archbishopric, and London remained a bishopric.
An archdiocese (or archiepiscopal see or archbishopric) is more significant than a diocese.
A rift grew between Henry and Becket as the new archbishop resigned his chancellorship and sought to recover and extend the rights of the archbishopric.
As a result, he was stripped of his archbishopric.
Because the area had been depopulated by plague in the early 18th century, King Frederick William I of Prussia invited Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg to settle in Insterburg in 1732.
Cardinalate Piccolomini was the administrator of the Archdiocese of Siena which his uncle had raised to the status of archbishopric.
From the fourth century, Strasbourg was the seat of the Bishopric of Strasbourg (made an Archbishopric in 1988).
He barred Langton from entering England and seized the lands of the archbishopric and other papal possessions.
His military and diplomatic ability became known to the pope, who made him a cardinal-priest of S. Clemente in December of that year, at which point he resigned the archbishopric of Toledo.
However, following the ravages inflicted by them, the metropolitan had transferred his See to another city, and since that time Salzburg had been raised to an archbishopric.
In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.
In 1559 the bishopric of Utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious center of the Northern ecclesiastical province in the Seventeen provinces.
In addition to ending both invasions, the battle allowed the duke's ecclesiastical supporters to depose Mauger from the archbishopric of Rouen.
Kirby, Earliest English Kings, p. 174. The few accounts of the creation of the new archbishopric date from after the end of Offa's reign.
Mayr-Harting Coming of Christianity pp. 173–174 Death and legacy Augustine's gravesite at Canterbury Before his death, Augustine consecrated Laurence of Canterbury as his successor to the archbishopric, probably to ensure an orderly transfer of office.
Offa's dispute with Jaenberht may have led him to allow Eadberht coining rights, which may then have been revoked when the see of Lichfield was elevated to an archbishopric.
On 4 December, Rome decided Cranmer's fate by depriving him of the archbishopric and giving permission to the secular authorities to carry out their sentence.
Photios is widely regarded as the most powerful and influential church leader of Constantinople subsequent to John Chrysostom 's archbishopric in the late fourth century.