archbishop

Meaning

Noun

• A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)

Origin

• From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English ærċebisċop, from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος, from ἀρχι- + ἐπίσκοπος, from ἐπισκοπέω, from ἐπί + σκοπέω, equivalent to .