Definition of "archdeaconry" []

• The rank or office of an archdeacon. (noun)
• The district or residence of an archdeacon. (noun)

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• "A fat magisterial book on archdeaconry in 16th-century St Albans?"
• "I am Mrs. Rose Martins Toyo from Tunisia, married to Dr. Martins Toyo who served as an archdeacon in the St. Micheal's archdeaconry in Ivory Coast for 14 years ,before he died in the year 2003."
• "The archdeacon, as a matter of course, knew every clergyman in the archdeaconry — it may almost be said in the diocese — and had some acquaintance, more or less intimate, with their wives and families."