How To Use archpriest In A Sentence
- They would say that being an archpriest of a major basilica is an important job, you need a senior churchman to do it.
- The former archdeacons and archpriests and the present vicars capitular and some others have ordinary power in consequence of their office, but by the present discipline vicars Apostolic and vicars forane have only delegated power conferred by special commission. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
- A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest.
- In 1755 Fagnano was appointed as archpriest, a very high rank to achieve.
- ‘I know your mission here, of course,’ the archpriest told him, ‘and I have information for you.’
- In a given year, in 1824, for example, there were 34,095 priests and archpriests, 15,081 deacons, and 59,740 sacristans in Russia.
- On the other hand, the ancient office of vicarii foranei, decani rurales, or archipresbyteri still exists in the Church (see ARCHPRIEST; DEAN). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- The bishop puts the stole (orarium) on the left shoulder of a deacon, and delivers a "ferula" to an archdeacon and archpriest, a "manuale" (book of sacraments) to a priest, and a staff and book of the Rule to an abbot. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Roughly the titles archpriest (archipresbyteros), protopriest (protoiereus, protopresbyteros), protopope (protopapas) may be taken as meaning; the same thing, though they have occasionally been distinguished. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- ‘All of the sacred works of the foreign kapellmeisters,’ wrote the Archpriest Dmitry Razumovsky, ‘were acknowledged in their time and even now are recognized as truly artistic and classical in a musical sense.’
