How to Use archbishop in a Sentence

archbishop

noun
  • Certainly, they would not have been married by an archbishop.
    Katie Nicholl, Vanities, 19 May 2018
  • The archdiocese said Tuesday the archbishop was alert and in good spirits.
    Melissa Renteria, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The archbishop also baptized Meghan in March ahead of the wedding.
    refinery29.com, 12 May 2018
  • Also to be made cardinal is Joseph Coutts, archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan.
    Frances D'emilio, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
  • Castro was among those arrested but was spared execution after appeals for leniency by an archbishop with ties to his family.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Chaucer’s medieval classic unfolds as a storytelling battle among pilgrims traveling to the shrine of an English archbishop martyred in a church-and-state intrigue.
    Gaiutra Bahadur, New York Times, 10 May 2018
  • But in the archbishop’s telling, the church exists not for the Gospel, but for itself.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Galileo served the first six months of his house arrest at the archbishop's home.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
  • Meghan, who wore a Club Monaco dress, said to the archbishop as the bounced Archie in her arms.
    Omid Scobie, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The archbishop added that Trump's critics in the Catholic Church are deep state agents.
    Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
  • We are being abused in the Catholic church by this priest and by this archbishop.
    oregonlive.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The archbishop placed Queen Mary's Crown atop her head.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • Bradley plays an archbishop who’s a mentor to the ex-priest.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The monarch is crowned with St. Edward’s Crown, the archbishop delivers a prayer and the monarch sits on the throne.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • At the time, the new archbishop vowed to offer hope and rebuild trust in the system.
    CBS News, 27 Nov. 2020
  • In 1986, Tutu was named the first Black archbishop of Cape Town.
    Andrew Meldrum, Chron, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The archbishop then formed a working group on the issue.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 19 June 2021
  • Viewers who wanted to join the archbishop in prayer were able to do so on You Tube.
    Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
  • As is the case for leaders of the Catholic Church nationwide, the next archbishop's plate would be full.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2024
  • As is the case for leaders of the Catholic Church nationwide, the next archbishop's plate would be full.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • After the Mass, the archbishop will invite people to view the altars at the plaza.
    Carmina Danini, ExpressNews.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Which was the stronger—bona fide devotion, or the fruits and rewards of an archbishop?
    Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • The archbishop threatened to pull out of the march unless the speech was modified.
    John Leland, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Now, 70 years later, the archbishop of Canterbury has placed St. Edward’s Crown on the head of the king.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
  • The archbishop will bless the sword and hand it to the monarch with the injunction that it should be used for the protection of good and the punishment of evil.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • Schafer said the archbishop hopes to name a new pastor at St. Ignatius within a few months.
    Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In 1977 he was made the archbishop of Munich and Freising, and then a cardinal.
    Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The archbishop’s assault on the migration law has focused new attention of the role of the Church of England in the House of Lords.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Coyne is the sixth archbishop of Hartford and 14th bishop of Hartford.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2024
  • Joseph Ritter, the Catholic archbishop of St. Louis, did not fear being stern and heavy-handed with his flock.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021

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