The word "archdiocese" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a principal diocese in the Roman Catholic Church, overseen by an archbishop. Example: "The archdiocese of New York is one of the largest in the United States." Alternatives include "diocese" and "ecclesiastical province."
He insisted the church had changed the way it handled abuse claims since the well-known John Ellis case, in which an abuse victim failed to get redress through the church procedure and then failed in his bid to sue the trustees of the archdiocese and then archbishop Pell.
It was a fully thought-through system with a clear set of goals, defined by last year's devastating Murphy report on the Dublin archdiocese as "the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets".
Peter Chinoko, head of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in the Lilongwe archdiocese, said: "We have concrete evidence about the president's involvement".
Much of the criticism has focused, understandably, on the actions of individuals such as Brady when he investigated Smyth in 1975 or Benedict (Joseph Ratzinger as he then was) who sent an abuser in his Munich archdiocese for "therapy" in 1980.
The archdiocese presented $40.7m in assets, compared with $98.4m in its financial report last year.
The archdiocese, plaintiffs claimed, had committed fraud in the 1970s and 1980s by misrepresenting such priests to future victims.
In the latest twist in the American saga of abuse and evasion, the archdiocese of Los Angeles has just stripped a retired cardinal-archbishop of any remaining duties after releasing 12,000 pages of evidence which tell a distressing story of cover-ups.
The locked doors had been a disastrous pre-emptive strike: the archdiocese had feared that the parents were going to occupy the school.The result was another paranoid week for church leaders, still reeling three years after the sex-abuse scandal tore a public rift between them and lay Catholics.
Inside, it's easy to imagine how the cathedral's vast dimensions would seem otherworldly to the medieval mind.Construction began in 1248, as the archdiocese needed a larger building to serve the flood of visitors that poured into the city after it acquired the remains of the Three Magi, Christianity's first pilgrims.
A spokesman for the archdiocese of Glasgow told me it was "frustrating" to find that the agency had been challenged over the benefits of its work "not by any of the parties immediately affected, such as local authorities or disappointed would-be parents" but by "an English lobby group trying to make an ideological point".
He could not balance a budget to save his life.So when Cardinal Egan assumed control of New York's archdiocese, its finances were a mess.
