archbishop

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviations): abp., Abp.

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/, (less often) /ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/

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Noun

archbishop (plural archbishops, feminine archbishopess)

1. 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.)

Related terms

• archbishopdom
• archbishopric
• archbishopship
• archepiscopal
• bishop
• bishopric
• episcopal

Translations

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
• 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)

See also

• archdiocese
• diocese
• Excellency
• Grace
• prelate
• primate