Sentence examples for archpriest from inspiring English sources
noun
(Eastern Orthodox Church) The highest rank given to a married priest.
In 1872 Chevalier became archpriest in Issoudun.
One of his teachers there was Archbishop Lawrence (Laurentius) of Amalfi, who was famed for his knowledge of both Greek and Latin, and the head of the community was the archpriest John Gratian, the future Pope Gregory VI (1045 46).
Juan Ruiz, the archpriest of Hita (died c. 1350) and one of the great medieval poets, took a satirical look at love; his Libro de buen amor (1330; expanded 1343; Book of Good Love) intersperses ribald and comic poems of love with beautiful hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary.
Concurrently, a minority had elected, with the support of a strong Byzantine party, the archpriest Laurentius.
Opposition to Nikon's reforms was led by a group of Muscovite priests, notably the archpriest Avvakum Petrovich.
Mired in scandal, Benedict felt so uncertain about his position in Rome that he resigned the papacy in favour of his godfather, the archpriest John Gratian, a figure of high moral standing.
Of noble birth, Sergius was made cardinal by Pope St. Paschal I and became an archpriest under Pope Gregory IV, whom he was elected to succeed by the Roman nobility against the wishes of the populace, which enthroned the deacon John as antipope.
Upon Anastasius' death (Nov. 19, 498), two parties confronted each other one led by Laurentius, an archpriest who favoured Anastasius' policy, and the other under the Sardinian deacon St. Symmachus.
Cardinal Bernard Law was driven in disgrace from Boston in 2002, yet was then honorably ensconced at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the most prestigious churches in Rome, where he remains Archpriest Emeritus.
"When else in Russian history has the highest power in the state been handed over so peacefully, so worthily, so honestly, and in such a friendly way?" said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church, in comments carried by the Interfax news service.
After he was forced to resign as Archbishop of Boston, in 2002, he was rescued from disgrace by Pope John Paul II, who appointed him to one of the most prestigious positions in Catholicism Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
