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Definition of Archpriests
1. archpriest [n] - See also: archpriest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archpriests
Literary usage of Archpriests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"From these cathedral arch- priests and deans were derived the rural archpriests
or deans. While the system of the three first centuries existed, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"With the increase in the number of principal or " baptismal " churches, the
importance of the archpriests diminished. From the ninth century their place was ..."
3. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages by Horace Kinder Mann, Johannes Hollnsteiner (1906)
"When the laudes were over, one of the archpriests mounted an ass with his face
towards its ... The archpriests of S. Maria in Aquiro and of S. Eustachius, ..."
4. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"The inferior archpriests were rural deans in 1188 in England, or rural archpriests,
and are identified with them in the 'Margarita ..."
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