of or pertaining to an archbishop or to the office of an archbishop
Derived forms
archiepiscopalty
noun
archiepiscopally
adverb
Word origin
[1605–15; ‹ ML archiepiscopālis, equiv. to LL archiepiscop(us) archbishop + L -ālis-al1]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: displacement, independent, inverse, package, series
Examples of 'archiepiscopal' in a sentence
archiepiscopal
Archiepiscopal visitation: the term itself seems to hark back to a medieval era.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
An archiepiscopal enthronement is a joyful thing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The archiepiscopal visitation, the first in more than 100 years, found that therehad been an 'appalling history'.