Crossword clues for archpriest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archpriest \Arch`priest"\, n. A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (''Eastern Orthodox Church'') The highest rank given to a married priest. 2 (''Roman Catholic Church'') An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.
WordNet
n. a senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate]
Wikipedia
Archpriest is an ecclesiastical title for certain priests with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches and may be somewhat analogous to a monsignor in the Latin Church, but in the Eastern Churches an archpriest wears an additional vestment and, typically, a pectoral cross, and one becomes an archpriest via a liturgical ceremony.
The term may be used in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church instead of dean or vicar forane.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, during the persecution of Catholics in England, an archpriest appointed from Rome had authority over all of the church's secular clergy in the country. In the present-day Church of England, a rural or area dean resembles an archpriest. In the Catholic Latin Rite traditionally a priest's first Mass has an archpriest assisting the newly ordained priest, functioning as the deacon otherwise does, but this is only for that event.
Usage examples of "archpriest".
The archpriest and the beadle, who had just arrived, would not bury the arm which was lying there, and they told me that I had been guilty of a great crime.
No one living that Anaxthenes could find ever remembered the elderly Archpriest serving in the Sacred Squares or any other army.
An archpriest, His Sanctity Krastokles, is traveling hither with rich gifts and the blessing of Styphon.
House archpriest, on his way to Nostor Town, with four tons of fireseed and seven thousand ounces of gold.
A Styphon archpriest, one Zothnes, had arrived in Sask Town, with a train of wagons as big as the one taken by Harmakros in southern Nostor.
And Gormoth had blasphemed Styphon and despitefully used a holy archpriest, and forced a hundred thousand ounces of silver out of the Nostor temple, at as close to pistol-point as made no difference.
The Archpriest Zothnes was there, sitting next to Sarrask, with the Chancellor of Sask shoved down one place to make room for him, which shows you who rules in Sask now.
On the same day, the archpriest made up his mind to have the arm buried, and to send a formal denunciation .
The information was taken down, and Louis Chauvet, the civil lieutenant, and the archpriest of SaintMarcel and the Loudenois, were appointed to investigate the matter, so that, while Urbain was instituting proceedings against Duthibaut in Paris, information was laid against himself in Loudun.
Gervais Mechin, curate-in-charge of the Church of Saint-Pierre in the Market Place at Loudun, certify by these presents, signed by my hand, to relieve my conscience as to a certain report which is being spread abroad, that I had said in support of an accusation brought by Gilles Robert, archpriest, against Urbain Grandier, priest-in-charge of Saint-Pierre, that I had found the said Grandier lying with women and girls in the church of Saint Pierre, the doors being closed.
If they joined their fellows in this holy war against mages, not only would the Archpriest be responsible for their actions, he would be obligated to see to it that they were stopped.
If the Heralds were attacked, those orders might move before the Crown and Archpriest could.
Vanyel chuckled, knowing the Archpriest was blissfully unaware of his relationship with Stefen.
Sesklos has been promoting his handpicked successor, Archpriest Anaxthenes who has now emerged as Speaker and the dominant member of the Inner Circle.
The Grand Master of the Order is also an Archpriest in the Inner Circle, but like most military holy orders they have little participation in the day to day running of the Temple.