What is "archbishoprics"

Usage examples of "archbishoprics".

So many cities therefore are there in England and Wales as there be bishoprics and archbishoprics.

For they also, within a while waxing covetous, by their own experience learned aforehand, raised the markets, and sought after new gains by the gifts of the greatest livings in that country, wherein (as Machiavelli writeth) are eighteen archbishoprics, one hundred forty and five bishoprics, 740 abbeys, eleven universities, 1,000,700 steeples (if his report be sound).

Younger sons of noble families were repeatedly appointed to archbishoprics at 18, 20, or 22.

Its core was a haphazard federation of German principalities, duchies, cities, leagues, margraves, archbishoprics, and counties under shifting and overlapping sover­eignties.

Scowling: "The ordnance facilities in these blessed Rhenish archbishoprics are a joke.