Sample sentences for ARCHBISHOP

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a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

In the seconds between the shattering of glass and the first casualty, soldiers surrounded Queen Victoria and hustled her through a door normally reserved for the archbishop, who hurried after her with breathless prayers.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

When Archbishop Dante de Luna died, bells all over the province tolled unceasingly for nine days and nine nights,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

The question is, what did the archbishop find?
Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

The marshal and the archbishop are strong:
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

The archbishop began to speak, but Alice hardly heard a word he said.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

Dressed in full military uniform, ancestral sword at his hip, he stood before the high altar with the archbishop.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

"If there is anyone here who objects to this union, let him speak now or forever hold his peace," the archbishop intoned.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

She heard herself repeating the archbishop's words without comprehending their meaning.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

The Archbishop knew that most of the priests of Peru were scoundrels.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

archbishop = a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)

CHAPTER X. How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the Archbishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
Thou hast to know that I was the Count Ugolino and he the Archbishop Ruggieri.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Part 9 DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP Chapter 1.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
The other guests were ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Archbishop Ireland, who were in Paris at the time.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Or consider this story: the Archbishop of Canterbury is actually the offspring of a little fox with pointy ears that lived in a tree!
Adam Gopnik -- Can Science Explain Why We Tell Stories?
It was to be led by Archbishop Tutu and the Reverend Allan Boesak.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
JAILER The Secretary, the Duke, and the Archbishop.
Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
In the sacred college, you know, of cardinals and archbishops and bishops there were two men who held out against it while the others were all for it.
James Joyce -- Dubliners

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