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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Archbishop \Arch`bish"op\, n. [AS. arcebisceop arcebiscop L.
archiepiscopus fr Gr 'archiepi`skopos. See {Bishop}.]
A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often
called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the
conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also
exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
archbishop
n : a bishop of highest rank
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a
bishop.
If I were a jolly archbishop,
On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up --
Salmon and flounders and smelts;
On other days everything else.
Jodo Rem
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