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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By now he had discovered what archdeacons do, and did not have to do everything himself.
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By the thirteenth century archdeacons acted as lieutenants of the bishops within the separate dioceses or sees.
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He had three suffragan bishops and three archdeacons.
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I suppose the link between chapter and parish is really administratively through the archdeacon .
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In addition, the eleven cathedral deans and sixty archdeacons were summoned as a rule.
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The new pope was given the name Innocent by the archdeacon and invested with the scarlet mantle which signified his pontificate.
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Until Disestablishment in 1870 the archdeacons of Dromore were, from time immemorial, rectors of Seagoe.