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ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. dpxieirtcrKOTros) , in the Christian Church, the title of a bishop of superior rank, implying usually jurisdiction over other bishops, but no superiority of order over them. The functions of the archbishop, as at prese ...

... uncil of regency, bore the king's crown on the opening of the session, and with Archbishop Beaton held the chief power. In March he was appointed lieutenant of the marches, and suppressed the disorder and anarchy on the border. In July the guardianship of the ...

... ctrines of Christian socialism which the Roman Catholics, under the guidance of Archbishop Ketteler, had adopted from , the teachings of the Jew Lassalle (Nitti, Catholic Socialism, pp. 94-96, 122, 127), and he had formed a society called " The Christian Socia ...

... ustrian military station. Antivari contains the residence of its Roman Catholic archbishop, and, in the centre of the shore, Topolitsa, the square undecorated palace of the crown prince. Antivari is the name applied both to Prstan and the old town. The Austria ...

ANTONINUS, SAINT [ANTONIO PIEROZZI, also called DE FORCIGLIONI] (1389-1459), archbishop of Florence, was born at that city on the ist of March 1389. He entered the Dominican order in his i6th year, and was soon entrusted, in spite of his youth, with the govern ...

... yth century, as a simple monk. He became bishop of Ramnicu in 1705, and in 1708 archbishop of Walachia. Taking a leading part in the political movements of the time, he came into conflict with the newly appointed Greek hospodars, and was exiled to Rumelia. But ...

... sciples or successors " (Vind. Ign. i. cap. 5); whilst a greater scholar still, Archbishop Usher, had already gone much further, and concluded, forestalling the results of modern critical methods, that their compiler was none other than the compiler of the spu ...

... Such rewards as the church could bestow had been offered to him. He refused the archbishopric of Naples and the abbacy of Monte Cassino. In January 1274 he was summoned by Pope Gregory X. to attend the council convened at Lyons, to investigate and if possible ...

... bbots was Cardinal Beaton, who succeeded his uncle James when the latter became archbishop of St Andrews. At the Reformation the abbey was dismantled and afterwards allowed to go to ruin. Part of the secular buildings still stand, and the abbot's house, or Abb ...

... who supervised the work of chancellors or notaries. In the gth century Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, in his work, De ordine palatii et regni, speaks of a summits cancellarius, evidently an official at the court of the Carolingian emperors and kings. A charter ...

... s raised, in the second half of the i8th century, by the unwearied exertions of Archbishop Richard Robinson, ist Lord Rokeby (1709-1794), which, seconded by similar devotion on the part of succeeding archbishops of the Beresford family, notably Archbishop Lord ...

ARNO, ARN or AQUILA (c. 750-821), bishop and afterwards archbishop of Salzburg, entered the church at an early age, and after passing some time at Freising became abbot of Elnon, or St Amand as it was afterwards called, where he made the acquaintance of Alcuin ...

... of October and on the zoth captured Pontefract Castle, with Lord Darcy and the archbishop of York, who took the oath of the rebels. He caused the monks and nuns to be reinstated, and refused to allow the king's herald to read the royal proclamation, announcin ...

... s, and the 113 choir-stalls of carved oak, also of Renaissance workmanship. The archbishop's palace adjoins the cathedral; it is a building of the i8th century with a Romanesque hall and a tower of the i4th century. Opposite the south side of the cathedral sta ...

... kingdom. In Kngland the AuJirmr-tourt was an ecclesiastical lourl, held by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, in which they once exercised a considerable part of their jurisdiction, dealing with such matters as they thought lit to reserve for their own h ...

... rred this right, ami which is hereditary in (heir family (78 in 1007); (3) of o archbishop* and K princebishops; and (4) of life members nominated by the emperor for distinguished services (170 in 1907). The Lower House has undergone considerable changes since ...

... accept their doctrines. Many of the reforms introduced by Laud after he became archbishop in 1633 were needful, but they offended the Puritans and were enforced in a harsh and tyrannical manner, for he lacked wisdom and sympathy. Under his rule nonconforming ...

... hstatt were princes of the Empire, subject to the spiritual jurisdiction of the archbishops of Mainz, and ruled over considerable territories in the Circle of Franconia. In 1802 the see was secularized and incorporated in Bavaria. In 1817 it was given, with th ...

... ch, under the name of Romagna, they continued to belong. At first, however, the archbishop of Ravenna was in reality supreme. The other chief cities of Emilia — Ferrara, Modena, Reggio, Parma, Piacenza— were, on the other hand, independent, and in the period o ...

... AND, CHURCH OF). The Church of Ireland had at the time of the Act of Union four archbishops, who took their titles from Armagh, Dublin, Cashel and Tuam. By acts of 1833 and 1834, the metropolitans of Cashel and of Tuam were reduced to the status of diocesan bi ...

... tne greatest wine-producing cities m the world; Braga (24,202), the seat of an archbishop who is primate of Portugal; the seaports of Povoa de Varzim (12,623) and Vianna do Castello (9990); and Guimaraes (9104), a place of considerable historical interest.

... , and communal colleges for girls and boys. Epernay (Sparnacum) belonged to the archbishops of Reims from the 5th to the loth century, at which period it came into the possession of the counts of Champagne. It suffered severely during the Hundred Years' War, a ...

... hip of Guienne in 1622 he had some scandalous scenes with the parlemcnt and the archbishop of Bordeaux. He died in 1642. His eldest son, Henri de Nogaret de la Valette, duke of Candale, served under Richelieu, in the armies of Guienne, of Picardy and of Italy. ...

... n a circle of learned friends through whom he was introduced to William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Foxe, bishop of Winchester and other dignitaries. John Fisher (bishop of Rochester), who was then superintending the foundation of Christ's Colleg ...

... acon of Colchester), silenced (1565) at Bury St Edmunds ERATOSTHENES— ERBIUM by Archbishop Parker. Withers had proposed a disputation against vestments, which the university would not allow; his thesis affirming the excommunicating power of the presbytery was ...

... ughout all Europe, and several princes, the kings of England and Spain, and the archbishop of Seville made him the most flattering offers; but he constantly refused to leave his native country. He was preparing an edition of the Koran with a Latin translation ...

... . The doctrine of conditional immortality taught by Socinianism was accepted by Archbishop Whately, and has been most persistently advocated by Edward White, who " maintains that immortality is a truth, not of reason, but of revelation, a gift of God " bestowe ...

... ohn Sobteski, king of Poland, and Prince Charles of Lorraine. It was created an archbishopric in 1001. During the Turkish occupation of the town the archbishopric was removed to Tyrnau, while the archbishop himself had his residence in Pressburg. Both returned ...

... chesse d'Etampes in 1539. Sanguin was translated to Limoges in 1546, and became archbishop of Toulouse in 1550. 8 04 ETAPLES— ETCHING metal-founding, leather-dressing, printing and the manufacture of boots and shoes and hosiery are carried on; there are quarri ...

... er of imperial electors was settled, and henceforth they were to consist of the archbishops of Cologne, Mainz and Trier, and of the king of Bohemia, the duke of Saxony, the margrave of Brandenburg and the count palatine of the Rhine. Charles hoped to concentra ...

... version from the French by L. H. le Moine (London and Paris, 1788). EUSTATHIUS, archbishop of Thessalonica, Byzantine scholar and author (probably a native of Constantinople), flourished during the second half of the izth century. He was at first a monk, and a ...

... f opposition in his father's reign both Hereford and Norfolk were now dead. But Archbishop Winchelsea had returned from exile in a belligerent mood, and the place of Norfolk and Hereford was taken by an ambitious prince of the royal house, Thomas, earl of Lanc ...

... nt days. The question of the legality of reservation was brought before the two archbishops in i8gg, under circumstances analogous to those in the Lambeth Hearing on Incense (q.v.). The parties concerned were three clergymen, who appealed from the direction of ...

... 24th of January 1376, leaving three sons, the youngest of whom, Thomas, became archbishop of Canterbury. Richard's eldest son, RICHARD, earl of Arundel and Surrey (c. 1346-1397), was a member of the royal council during the minority of Richard II., and about ...

... lwulf he was appointed bishop of Winchester, to which see he was consecrated by Archbishop Ceolnoth. In his new office he was remarkable for his piety and his zeal in building new churches or restoring old ones. At his request .iEthelwulf gave the tenth of his ...

... ianism which then flourished in Padua and Bologna. Resigning to his brother the archbishopric of Cosenza, offered to him by Pope Pius IV., he began to lecture at Naples and finally founded the academy of Cosenza. In 1563, or perhaps two years later, appeared h ...

... rigue, especially for the preferment of her brother the abbe Tencin, who became archbishop of Embrun and received a cardinal's hat. Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its hdbituts Fontenelle, Montesquieu, the abbfi de Saint Pierre, Pierre ...

THEOBALD (d. 1161), archbishop of Canterbury, was of Norman parentage, but the date of his birth is unknown. Early in life he entered the great abbey of Bee, of which he became prior in 1127 and abbot ten years later. In 1138 he was selected by Stephen, king o ...

... churches was no measure of their influence. One proof of the latter is found in Archbishop Laud and the English High Churchmen of his school, who throw off the Augustinian or Calvinistic yoke in favour of an Arminian theology. Lutheranism had set the example o ...

TILLOTSON, JOHN (1630-1694), English archbishop, was the son of a Puritan clothier in Sowerby, Yorkshire, where he was born in October 1630. He entered as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1647, graduated in 1650 and was made fellow of his college in 16 ...