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ARCHBISHOP (See also:Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)  , in the See also:Christian See also:Church, the See also:title of a See also:bishop of See also:superior See also:rank, implying usually See also:jurisdiction over other bishops, but no superiority of See also:order over them . The functions of the See also:archbishop, as at See also:present exercised, See also:developed out of those of the See also:metropolitan (q.v.); though the title of archbishop, when it first appeared, implied no metropolitan jurisdiction . Nor are the terms inter-changeable now; for not all metropolitans are archbishops,) nor all archbishops metropolitans . The title seems to have been introduced first in the See also:East, in the 4th See also:century, as an honorary distinction implying no superiority of jurisdiction . Its first recorded use is by See also:Athanasius, bishop of See also:Alexandria, who applied it to his predecessor See also:Alexander as a See also:mark of respect . In the same way See also:Gregory of Nazianzus bestowed it upon Athanasius himself . In the next century its use would seem to have been more See also:common as the title of bishops of important See also:sees ; for several archbishops are stated to have been present at the See also:council of See also:Chalcedon in 451 . In the Western Church the title was hardly known before the 7th century, and did not become common until the Carolingian emperors revived the right of the metropolitans to summon provincial synods . The metropolitans now commonly assumed the title of archbishop to mark their pre-See also:eminence over the other bishops; at the same See also:time the See also:obligation imposed upon them, mainly at the instance of St See also:Boniface, to receive the See also:gallium (q.v.) from See also:Rome, definitely marked the defeat of their claim to exercise metropolitan jurisdiction independently of the See also:pope . At the present See also:day, the title of archbishop is retained in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Church, the various See also:oriental churches, the See also:Anglican Church, and certain branches of the Lutheran (Evangelical) Church . 1 In the Roman Church it is safe to say that all metropolitans are archbishops . In, e.g., the Scottish and See also:American episcopal churches, however, the metropolitan is the See also:senior bishop See also:pro tem .

In the Roman Catholic Church the See also:

powers of the archbishop are considerably less extensive than they were in the See also:middle ages . According to the See also:medieval See also:canon See also:law, based on the See also:decretals, and codified in the 13th century in the Corpus See also:juris canonici, by which the earlier powers of metropolitans had been greatly curtailed, the powers of the archbishop consisted in the right (1) to confirm and consecrate See also:suffragan bishops; (2) to summon and preside over provincial synods; (3) to superintend the suffragans and visit their dioceses, as well as to censure and punish bishops in the interests of discipline, the right of deprivation, however, being reserved to the pope; (4) to See also:act as a See also:court of See also:appeal from the diocesan courts; (5) to exercise the See also:jus devolutionis, i.e. present to benefices in the See also:gift of bishops, if these neglect their See also:duty in this respect . These rights were greatly curtailed by the council of See also:Trent . The See also:confirmation and See also:consecration of bishops (q.v.) is now reserved to the See also:Holy See . The summoning of provincial synods, which was made obligatory every three years by the council, was See also:long neglected, but is now more common wherever the See also:political conditions, e.g. in the See also:United States, See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:France, are favourable . The disciplinary powers of the archbishop, on the other See also:hand, can scarcely be said to survive . The right to hold a visitation of a suffragan's See also:diocese or to issue censures against him was, by Sess. See also:xxiv. c . 3 de ref., of the council of Trent, made dependent upon the consent of the provincial See also:synod after cause shown (causa cognita et probata) ; and the only two powers See also:left to the archbishop in this respect are to See also:watch over the diocesan seminaries and to compel the See also:residence of the bishop in his diocese . The right of the See also:arch-bishop to exercise a certain disciplinary See also:power over the See also:regular orders is possessed by him, not as archbishop, but as the delegate ad hoc of the pope . Finally, the See also:function of the archbishop as See also:judge in a court of appeal, though it still subsists, is of little See also:practical importance now that the See also:clergy, in See also:civil matters, are universally subject to the See also:secular courts . Besides archbishops who are metropolitans there are in the Roman Catholic Church others who have no metropolitan jurisdiction . Such are the titular archbishops in partibus, and certain archbishops of See also:Italian sees who have no bishops under them .

Archbishops rank immediately after patriarchs and have the same See also:

precedence as See also:primates . The right to See also:wear the See also:pallium is confined to those archbishops who are not merely titular . It must be applied for, either in See also:person or by See also:proxy, at Rome by the archbishop within three months of his consecration or enthronement, and, before receiving it, he must take the oaths of fidelity and obedience to the Holy See . Until the pallium is granted, the archbishop is known only as archbishop-elect, and is not empowered to exercise his potestas ordinis in the archdiocese nor to summon the provincial synod and exercise the jurisdiction dependent upon this . He may, however, exercise his purely episcopal functions . The See also:special See also:ensign of his See also:office is the See also:cross, crux erecta or gestatoria, carried before him on See also:solemn occasions (see CROSS) . In the Orthodox and other churches of the East the title of archbishop is of far more common occurrence than in the See also:West, and is less consistently associated with metropolitan Church . Church. functions . Thus in See also:Greece there are eleven archbishops to thirteen bishops, the archbishop of See also:Athens alone being metropolitan; in See also:Cyprus, where there are four bishops and only one archbishop, all five are of metropolitan rank . In the See also:Protestant churches of See also:continental See also:Europe the title of archbishop has fallen into almost See also:complete disuse . It is, however, still See also:borne by the Lutheran bishop of See also:Upsala, who is metropolitan of See also:Sweden, and by the Lutheran bishop of Also in See also:Finland . In See also:Prussia the title has occasionally been bestowed by the See also:king on See also:general superintendents of the Lutheran church, as in 1829, when See also:Frederick See also:William III. gave it to his friend and spiritual adviser, the celebrated preacher, See also:Ludwig See also:Ernst Borowski (174o—1831), general See also:superintendent of Prussia 0812) and bishop (1816) .

In the Church of See also:

England and its See also:sister and daughter churches the position of the archbishop is defined by the medievalcanon law as confirmed or modified by See also:statute since the See also:Reformation . It is, therefore, as regards both the potestas ordinis and jurisdiction, substantially the same as in the Roman Catholic Church, See also:save as modified on the one hand by the substitution of the supremacy of the See also:crown for that of the Holy See, and on the other by the restrictions imposed by the council of Trent . The ecclesiastical See also:government of the Church of England is divided between two archbishops—the archbishop of See also:Canterbury, who is " See also:primate of all England " and metropolitan of the See also:province of Canterbury, and the archbishop of See also:York, who is "primate of England " and metropolitan of the province of York . The jurisdiction of the archbishop of Canterbury as primate of all England extends in certain matters into the province of York . He exercised the jurisdiction of legatus natus of the pope through-out all England before the Reformation, and since that event he has been empowered, by 25 See also:Hen . VIII. c . 21, to exercise certain powers of See also:dispensation in cases formerly sued for in the court of Rome . Under this statute the archbishop continues to See also:grant special licences to marry, which are valid in both provinces; he appoints notaries public, who may practise in both provinces; and he grants dispensations to clerks to hold more than one See also:benefice, subject to certain restrictions which have been imposed by later statutes . The archbishop also continues to grant degrees in the faculties of See also:theology, See also:music and law, which are known as See also:Lambeth degrees . His power to grant degrees in See also:medicine, qualifying the recipients to practise, was practically restrained by the Medical Act 1858 . The archbishop of Canterbury exercises the twofold jurisdiction of a metropolitan and a diocesan bishop . As metropolitan he is the See also:guardian of the spiritualities of every vacant see within the province, he presents to all benefices which fall vacant during the vacancy of the see, and through his special See also:commissary exercises the See also:ordinary jurisdiction of a bishop within the vacant diocese .

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He exercises also an appellate jurisdiction over each bishop, which, in cases of licensed curates, he exercises personally under the Pluralities Act 1838; but his ordinary appellate jurisdiction is exercised by the judge of the See also:

Arches court (see ARCHES, COURT OF) . The archbishop had formerly exclusive jurisdiction in all causes of See also:wills and intestacies, where parties died having See also:personal See also:property in more than one diocese of the province of Canterbury, and he had concurrent jurisdiction in other cases . This jurisdiction, which he exercised through the judge of the See also:Prerogative court, was transferred to the crown by the Court of See also:Probate Act 1857 . The Arches court was also the court of appeal from the See also:consistory courts of the bishops of the province in all testamentary and matrimonial causes . The matrimonial jurisdiction was transferred to the crown by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 . The court of See also:Audience, in which the archbishop presided personally, attended by his See also:vicar-general, and sometimes by episcopal assessors, has fallen into desuetude . The vicar-general, however, exercises jurisdiction in matters' of ordinary See also:marriage licences and of institutions to benefices . The See also:master of the faculties regulates the See also:appointment of notaries public, and all dispensations which fall under 25 Hen . VIII. c . 21 . Alight very rarely exercised by the archbishop of Canterbury, but one of great importance, is that of the visitation and de-privation of inferior bishops . Since there is no example of the archbishop of York exercising or being reputed to have such disciplinary jurisdiction over his suffragans,' and this right could, according to the canon law cited above, in the middle ages only be exercised normally in See also:concert with the provincial synod, it would seem to be a survival of the special jurisdiction enjoyed by the pre-Reformation archbishop as legatus natus of the pope .

It was somewhat freely exercised by See also:

Cranmer and his successors immediately after the Reformation; but the See also:main precedent now relied upon is that of Dr See also:Watson, bishop of St Davids, who was deprived in 1695 by Archbishop Tennison for See also:simony and ' Unless the See also:case of the claim of Mark, bishop of See also:Carlisle, to be tried by his ordinary instead of by a temporal court, be a precedent (See also:Phillimore, See also:Eccles . Law, p . 74, ed . 1895) . Roman Catholic Church . Lutheran Church . Church of England . 358 other offences, the legality of the See also:sentence being finally confirmed by the See also:House of Lords on the 25th of See also:January 1705 . It was proved in the course of the long See also:argument in this case that the archbishop of Canterbury had undoubtedly exercised such See also:independent power of visitation both before and after the Reformation; and it was on this precedent that in 1888 the judicial See also:committee of the privy council mainly relied in deciding that the archbishop had the right to cite before him the bishop of See also:Lincoln (Dr See also:Edward King), who was accused of certain irregular See also:ritual practices . The trial began on the 12th of See also:February 1889 before the archbishop and certain assessors, the protest of Dr King, based on the claim that he could only be tried in a provincial synod, being overruled by Archbishop See also:Benson on the grounds above stated . The main importance of the " Lincoln See also:Judgment," delivered on the 21st of See also:November 1890, is that it set a new precedent for the effective jurisdiction of the arch-bishop, based on the See also:ancient canon law, and so did something towards the See also:establishment of a purely " spiritual " court, the See also:absence of which had been one of the main grievances of a large See also:body of the clergy . It is the See also:privilege of the archbishop of Canterbury to crown the See also:kings and queens of England .

He is entitled to consecrate all the bishops within his province and was formerly entitled, upon consecrating a bishop, to select a benefice within his diocese at his See also:

option for one of his chaplains, but this practice was indirectly abolished by 3 and 4 Viet. c . 111, § 42 . He is entitled to nominate eight chaplains, who had formerly certain statutory privileges, which are now abolished . He is ex officio an ecclesiastical See also:commissioner for England, and has by statute the right of nominating one of the salaried ecclesiastical commissioners . The archbishop exercises the ordinary jurisdiction of a bishop over his diocese through his consistory court at Canterbury, the judge of which court is styled the commissary-general of the See also:city and diocese of Canterbury . The archbishop holds a visitation of his diocese personally every' three years, and he is the only diocesan who has kept up the triennial visitation of the See also:dean and See also:chapter of his See also:cathedral.' The archbishop of Canterbury takes precedence immediately after princes of the See also:blood royal and over every peer of See also:parliament, including the See also:lord See also:chancellor . The archbishop of York has immediate spiritual jurisdiction as metropolitan in the case of all vacant sees within the province of York, analogous to that which is exercised by the archbishop of Canterbury within the province of Canterbury . He has also an appellate jurisdiction of an analogous See also:character, which he exercises through his provincial court, whilst his diocesan jurisdiction is exercised through his consistorial court, the See also:judges of both courts being nominated by the archbishop . His ancient testamentary and matrimonial jurisdiction was transferred to the crown by the same statutes which divested the see of Canterbury of its jurisdiction in similar matters . It is the privilege of the archbishop of York to crown the See also:queen See also:consort and to be her perpetual See also:chaplain . The archbishop of York takes precedence over all subjects of the crown not of royal blood, but after the lord high chancellor of England . He is ex officio an ecclesiastical commissioner for England (see further ENGLAND, CHURCH OF) .

" The Church of See also:

Ireland had at the time of the Act of See also:Union four archbishops, who took their titles from See also:Armagh, See also:Dublin, See also:Cashel and See also:Tuam . By acts of 1833 and 1834, the metropolitans of Cashel and of Tuam were reduced to the status of diocesan bishops . The two archbishoprics of Armagh and Dublin are maintained in the disestablished Church of Ireland . The title archbishop has been used in certain of the colonial churches, e.g . See also:Australia, See also:South See also:Africa, See also:Canada, and the West Indies, since 1893, when it was assumed by the metropolitans of Canada and See also:Rupert's See also:Land (see ANGLICAN COMMUNION) . 1 The court of Peculiars is no longer held, inasmuch as the peculiars have been placed by acts of parliament under the ordinary jurisdiction of the bishops of the respective dioceses in which they are situated . See also:ARCHDEACON Archbishops have the title of His (or Your) See also:Grace and Most See also:Reverend See also:Father in See also:God . See See also:Hinschius, See also:System See also:des katholischen Kirchenrechts (See also:Berlin, 1869), also See also:article " Erzbischof," in Hauck, Realencyklopeidie (1898) ; Phillimore, The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England, and authorities there cited . (W . A .

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