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From Middle English erchebischop , archebischop , from Old English arċebisċop ( “ archbishop ” ) , from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus , from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος ( arkhiepískopos ) , from ἀρχι- ( arkhi- , “ first, chief ” ) + ἐπίσκοπος ( epískopos , “ overseer ” ) , from ἐπισκοπέω ( episkopéō , “ I watch over ” ) , from ἐπί ( epí , “ over ” ) + σκοπέω ( skopéō , “ I examine ” ) , equivalent to arch- + bishop .
( US , UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/ , ( less often ) /ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/
archbishop (plural archbishops )
A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese , and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
2020 November 27, Daniel Burke and Delia Gallagher, “This archbishop has become the first African American cardinal in Catholic history”, in CNN [1] :He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.
2025 April 21, Sam Clancy, Andrew Weil, “Former St. Louis archbishop Burke among 'popeable' candidates after Francis' death”, in KSDK [2] :One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.
senior bishop
Afrikaans: aartsbiskop (af)
Albanian: kryepeshkop (sq) m
Arabic: أَرْشِي اِبِسْقُوبُس m ( ʔaršī ibisqūbus )
Armenian: արքեպիսկոպոս (hy) ( arkʻepiskopos )
Asturian: arzobispu m
Azerbaijani: arxiyepiskop
Bashkir: архиепископ ( arxiyepiskop )
Basque: artzapezpiku
Bavarian: Erzbischof m
Belarusian: арцыбі́скуп m ( arcybískup ) , архіяпі́скап m ( arxijapískap )
Bikol Central: arsobispo (bcl)
Breton: arc’heskob m
Bulgarian: архиепи́скоп m ( arhiepískop )
Catalan: arquebisbe (ca) m
Cebuano: arsobispo
Central Franconian: ärzbischoff
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大主教 ( daai6 zyu2 gaau3 )
Hakka: 大主教 ( thai-chú-kâu )
Hokkien: 大主教 ( tōa-chú-kàu )
Mandarin: 大主教 (zh) ( dàzhǔjiào )
Czech: arcibiskup (cs) m
Danish: ærkebiskop c , ærkebisp c
Dutch: aartsbisschop (nl) m
Esperanto: ĉefepiskopo
Estonian: peapiiskop
Faroese: erkabiskupur m
Finnish: arkkipiispa (fi)
French: archevêque (fr) m
Middle French: archevesque m
Old French: archevesque m
Friulian: arcivescul m
Galician: arcebispo (gl) m
Gallurese: alcièscamu
Georgian: მთავარეპისკოპოსი ( mtavareṗisḳoṗosi ) , არქიეპისკოპოსი ( arkieṗisḳoṗosi )
German: Erzbischof (de) m
Greek: αρχιεπίσκοπος (el) m ( archiepískopos )
Ancient: ἀρχιεπίσκοπος m ( arkhiepískopos )
Greenlandic: biskorpiuneq
Hebrew: אַרְכִיבִּישׁוֹף (he) m
Hiligaynon: arsobispo
Hungarian: érsek (hu)
Icelandic: erkibiskup (is) m
Ido: arkiepiskopo (io)
Ilocano: arsobispo
Indonesian: uskup agung (id)
Interlingua: archiepiscopo
Irish: ardeaspag m
Italian: arcivescovo (it) m
Japanese: ( in Orthodox Church and Anglicanism ) 大主教 (ja) ( だいしゅきょう, daishukyō ) , ( in Catholic Church ) 大司教 (ja) ( だいしきょう, daishikyō )
Javanese: uskup agung
Kannada: ಆರ್ಚ್ ಬಿಷಪ್ ( ārc biṣap )
Kashubian: arcëbiskùp m
Kazakh: архиепископ ( arxiepiskop )
Korean: 대주교 ( daejugyo )
Kyrgyz: архиепископ ( arhiyepiskop )
Latin: archepiscopus m , archiepiscopus (la) m , archipraesul m
Latvian: arhibīskaps m
Limburgish: aersbisjóp m
Lithuanian: arkivyskupas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Äerzbëschof m
Macedonian: архиеписко́п m ( arhiepiskóp ) , на́дбискуп m ( nádbiskup )
Malagasy: arseveka (mg)
Malay: ketua biskop
Malayalam: മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത (ml) ( metrāppōlītta )
Maltese: arċisqof
Manx: ard-aspick m
Maori: pīhopa matua , ākipīhopa
Middle English: erchevesque , erchebischop
Norman: archêvêque m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: erkebiskop m , erkebisp m
Nynorsk: erkebiskop m , erkebisp m
Occitan: arquebisbe m
Old English: ærcebiscop m
Papiamentu: arsobispu
Piedmontese: arsivësco m
Pohnpeian: arkipisop
Polish: arcybiskup (pl) m
Portuguese: arcebispo (pt) m
Romanian: arhiepiscop (ro) m , mitropolit (ro) m
Romansch: archuvestg m , arzuestg m , arziuestg m , archuvas-ch m , archovais-ch m
Russian: архиепи́скоп (ru) m ( arxijepískop )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: arciobispu m
Logudorese: archibíscamu m
Sassarese: atzibèscamu
Scottish Gaelic: àrd-easbaig m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: архиепископ m
Roman: arhiepiskop (sh) m
Silesian: arcybiskup m
Slovak: arcibiskup (sk) m
Slovene: nadškof (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: arcybiskup m
Upper Sorbian: arcybiskup m , arcybiskop m
Spanish: arzobispo (es) m
Swahili: askofu mkuu
Swedish: ärkebiskop (sv) c
Tagalog: arsobispo (tl)
Tajik: архиепископ ( arxiyepiskop )
Tamil: பேராயர் (ta) ( pērāyar )
Thai: อาร์ชบิชอป , อัครสังฆราช , อัครมุขนายก
Turkish: başpiskopos (tr)
Turkmen: arhiýepiskop
Ukrainian: архієпи́скоп (uk) m ( arxijepýskop )
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: архиепископ (uz) ( arxiyepiskop )
Roman: arxiyepiskop (uz)
Vietnamese: tổng giám mục (vi)
Waray-Waray: arsobispo
Welsh: archesgob (cy) m
West Frisian: aartsbiskop (fy) c
Yakut: архиепископ ( arqiyepiskop )
Yiddish: אַרציביסקופּ m ( artsibiskup )