All 21 Uses of
archbishop
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- The only thing he was not willing to do was speak to the Archbishop so that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour could be buried in holy ground.†
Chpt 1
- For several years an Amazonian monkey, chained by his waist to the mango tree in the patio, elicited a certain compassion because he had the sorrowful face of Archbishop Obdulio y Rey, the same candid eyes, the same eloquent hands; that, however, was not the reason Fermina got rid of him, but because he had the bad habit of pleasuring himself in honor of the ladies.†
Chpt 1
- At last he proposed that they both submit to an open confession, with the Archbishop himself if necessary, so that God could decide once and for all whether or not there had been soap in the soap dish in the bathroom.†
Chpt 1
- Then, despite all her selfcontrol, she lost her temper with a historic cry: "To hell with the Archbishop!"†
Chpt 1
- The impropriety shook the very foundations of the city, gave rise to slanders that were not easy to disprove, and was preserved in popular tradition as if it were a line from an operetta: "To hell with the Archbishop!"†
Chpt 1
- With the help of her daughters, who were cut from the same cloth, she did everything possible to keep the places at the table of honor in order, with Dr. Juvenal Urbino in the center and Archbishop Obdulio y Rey on his right.†
Chpt 1
- The Archbishop commented to Dr. Urbino that in a sense this was a historic luncheon: there, together for the first time at the same table, their wounds healed and their anger dissipated, sat the two opposing sides in the civil wars that had bloodied the country ever since Independence.†
Chpt 1
- But he did not want to contradict the Archbishop, although he would have liked to point out to him that guests were at that luncheon not because of what they thought but because of the merits of their lineage, which was something that had always stood over and above the hazards of politics and the horrors of war.†
Chpt 1
- He turned to the Archbishop to tell him about the suicide, but he had already heard the news.†
Chpt 1
- Then he spoke to the Archbishop of the lay saint he had known in their long twilights of chess, he spoke of the dedication of his art to the happiness of children, his rare erudition in all things of this world, his Spartan habits, and he himself was surprised by the purity of soul with which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had separated himself once and for all from his past.†
Chpt 1
- The Archbishop was scandalized that a militant and educated Catholic would dare to think that a suicide was saintly, but he agreed with the plan to create an archive of the negatives.†
Chpt 1
- Although he was always considered a Liberal and was in the habit of voting for that party's candidates, it was more a question of tradition than conviction, and he was perhaps the last member of the great families who still knelt in the street when the Archbishop's carriage drove by.†
Chpt 1
- With the same serenity she opposed a vigil in the Cathedral, which the Archbishop himself had requested, and she agreed to the body's lying there only during the funeral Mass.†
Chpt 1
- Until that time the eminent dead were interred under the flagstones in the churches, in the exclusive vicinity of archbishops and capitulars, while the less wealthy were buried in the patios of convents.†
Chpt 3
- "It would be better for you to come to an understanding with me," she said, "because after me comes His Grace the Archbishop, and it is a different story with him."†
Chpt 3
- The Archbishop did not come.†
Chpt 3
- On only one occasion did she hover on the edge of public scandal, when the rumor circulated that Archbishop Dante de Luna had not died by accident after eating a plate of poisonous mushrooms but had eaten them intentionally because she threatened to expose him if he persisted in his sacrilegious solicitations.†
Chpt 3
- Juvenal Urbino greeted the members of the reception line with that naturalness so typical of him, which made everyone think the Doctor bore him a special fondness: first the ship's captain in his dress uniform, then the Archbishop, then the Governor with his and the Mayor with his, and then the military commander, who was a newcomer from the Andes.†
Chpt 5
- When Archbishop Dante de Luna died, bells all over the province tolled unceasingly for nine days and nine nights,
Chpt 5 *archbishop = bishop of highest rank
- His religion would not permit it, of course: he had dared to broach the subject with the Archbishop, just in case, and his answer had been a categorical no. It was pure illusion, because the Church did not permit the existence of crematoriums in our cemeteries, not even for the use of religions other than Catholic, and the advantage of building them would not have occurred to anyone but Juvenal Urbino.†
Chpt 6
- She, along with almost the entire city, had been at the window since eleven o'clock, watching the largest and most sumptuous funeral procession that had been seen here since the death of Archbishop De Luna.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(archbishop) a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)