Crossword clues for archdeaconry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archdeaconry \Arch`dea"con*ry\, n. The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.
Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries.
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The office of an archdeacon, or the term of that office 2 The residence, or territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
WordNet
n. the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
Usage examples of "archdeaconry".
He is the secular ecclesiastic who resigned the said archdeaconry to the governor, as I have said above, for the reasons mentioned.
But while he basked in his new happiness I travelled in my close stuffy envelope to Dulminster, and after having been tossed in and out of bags, shuffled, stamped, thumped, tied up, and generally shaken about, I arrived one morning at Dulminster Archdeaconry, and was laid on the breakfast table among other appetising things to greet Mrs.
And that evening after my arrival chanced to be one of these occasions, for there was a dinner-party at the Archdeaconry, given in honour of a well-known author who was spending a few days in the neighbourhood.
The bill also created a new archdeaconry of Liverpool, The bill proposed to exclude the new bishop from a seat in parliament.
Colonel, a Justice of the Peace, Mayor of Kendal, and Commissary in the Archdeaconry of Richmond before the late domestic wars.
York was divided into five archdeaconries: York, East Riding, Cleveland, Richmond and Nottingham.
Since the Reformation, southern Thuringia's Catholic Church had ceased to exist—there were no archdeaconries, no dioceses, no Catholic ecclesiastical administration of any kind.
Since the Reformation, southern Thuringia's Catholic Church had ceased to exist-there were no archdeaconries, no dioceses, no Catholic ecclesiastical administration of any kind.
Since the Reformation, southern Thuringia's Catholic Church had ceased to exist—there were no archdeaconries, no dioceses, no Catholic ecclesiastical administration of any kind.