noun
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In Christian denominations, the area administered by an archbishop.
Examples of archdiocese in a Sentence
The Roman Catholic Church is subject to the bishop of Rottenburg, in the archdiocese of Freiburg.
The bishopric was in the archdiocese of Mainz and the bishop was a prince of the empire.
We commit the sins, but we want you to pay for them says catholic archdiocese.
Until the pallium is granted, the archbishop is known only as archbishop-elect, and is not empowered to exercise his potestas ordinis in the archdiocese nor to summon the provincial synod and exercise the jurisdiction dependent upon this.
These registers, along with registers prior to 1881, are housed at the Archives of the Archdiocese of Saint Augustine.
In 1880 Bishop Corrigan was made coadjutor, with the right of succession, to Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York, under the title of archbishop of Petra; and thereafter nearly all the practical work of the archdiocese fell to his hands.
In 1844 he was consecrated bishop of Axieren in partibus, and was made coadjutor to Bishop Hughes of New York with the right of succession; in 1847 he became bishop of the newly created see of Albany; and in 1864 he succeeded to the archdiocese of New York, then including New York, New Jersey, and New England.
Thurles is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cashel; and the cathedral of St Patrick is a beautiful building.
The see, while for some purposes in the archdiocese of York, has its own convocation.
It was in the archdiocese of Trondhjem in Norway.
In 1852 there was held the first of a series of synods of the newly organized Roman Catholic archdiocese of Westminster.
Another, the Order of Our Lady of Lourdes, was founded in 1883 for work in the archdiocese of New Orleans.