ARCHDEACON


Meaning of ARCHDEACON in English

noun

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By now he had discovered what archdeacons do, and did not have to do everything himself.

By the thirteenth century archdeacons acted as lieutenants of the bishops within the separate dioceses or sees.

He had three suffragan bishops and three archdeacons.

I suppose the link between chapter and parish is really administratively through the archdeacon .

In addition, the eleven cathedral deans and sixty archdeacons were summoned as a rule.

The new pope was given the name Innocent by the archdeacon and invested with the scarlet mantle which signified his pontificate.

Until Disestablishment in 1870 the archdeacons of Dromore were, from time immemorial, rectors of Seagoe.

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