Definition of "archbishops" []

• Plural form of archbishop. (noun)

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• "The most ancient list of them is given in the ninth-century "Notitia" of Leo the Wise, where they are entitled archbishops and metropolitans, though they had no suffragans."
• "Herzegovina the so-called archbishops or metropolitans exercise, in union with the autocephalous synod, the highest ecclesiastical authority over the Church of such country."
• "Since the sixth century metropolitans have been also known as archbishops, which title they share with titular archbishops."