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Example sentences for "archbishop"

Lexicographically close words:
archaism; archaisms; archaistic; archangelic; archangels; archbishopric; archbishoprics; archbishops; archchancellor; archdeaconries
  1. This excited the greed and rage of the archbishop all the more.

  2. From that time the emperor was attached with rare devotion to the old Archbishop of Rheims.

  3. This knight belonged indeed to a race said to have been descended from an archbishop of Cologne, but his disposition was evil, and his covetousness and avarice made him wish to increase what earthly possessions he had.

  4. Many soldiers of the Electorate fell under the swords of the knights and their faithful servants, but ever the furious archbishop ordered forward new bands to fill the gaps.

  5. The Archbishop was greatly astonished at the grandeur of the design, and ordered the execution of the bold plan without delay.

  6. The Archbishop of Mayence absolved the bodies from their sins, and afterwards they were all interred together near the little church for the second time.

  7. The Archbishop of Rheims, the pious Turpin, heard of the emperor's sorrow, and he offered fervent prayers to God for help.

  8. Before the mighty Archbishop Kunrad of Hochstaden stood a simple architect offering the plan of a church, and arrogantly boasting that it would become one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Christendom.

  9. He believed all the more in the happy change when he heard that his brother intended presenting himself to the Archbishop of Cologne, in order to deliver a letter of great importance from his late father to him.

  10. Touched by such noble heroism the archbishop informed him that he would be allowed to surrender; but calling down the curse of heaven on worldly churchmen and their greed of land, he raised on high his sword and rushed upon his foes.

  11. For many centuries a very gloomy tale has been told about it in connection with Hatto, Archbishop of Mayence, whose evil deeds were well-known throughout the country.

  12. One day he stood before the Archbishop of Cologne and reminded him how he had saved his life more than twenty years ago, and he recalled to his memory that he had promised to grant any wish of the Hammersteins.

  13. Peter von Aspelt, Archbishop of Mainz, had cast envious eyes on proud Lahneck which sheltered twelve Knights-Templars and their retainers.

  14. It was Paulinus, first Archbishop of York, who had baptized Edwin in 625.

  15. In the Synod of 1072 the Archbishop of York was declared subordinate to Canterbury, but half a century later, in order to make peace, Rome adjudged them equal.

  16. He renewed the contention with Becket’s successor, and provoked an absurd scene at the Council of Westminster in 1176, when, arriving late and finding the Archbishop of Canterbury present and already seated, he sat down in his lap.

  17. The emperor sent for the archbishop of the city to betroth them immediately.

  18. As soon as the archbishop arrived, the emperor ordered him to betroth his daughter and Tirant, and he did so.

  19. Moore was in his 72d year, the Archbishop in his 83d year.

  20. We may join the archbishop in wishing that Plutarch, without compromising principle, had been more tolerant to a system with which he had so much in common, and which, in his day, had put off much of its old hardness.

  21. Archbishop Trench, in his fascinating and sympathetic treatment of Plutarch, laments that he did not give a more generous recognition to that noblest and most truly Roman school which was the last refuge and citadel of freedom.

  22. He denounced the emigration of the poor, and Archbishop Whately charged him with baseness, in supporting the penal system of transportation; but no colonist would question his sincerity.

  23. In presenting his petition (1839), the archbishop of Canterbury insisted that, however impracticable in Canada, such a measure could encounter no fair objection in a colony where so large a proportion were members of the English church.

  24. He had long entertained that opinion, and had never seen the arguments of the Archbishop of Dublin refuted.

  25. The Archbishop was quite taken aback, and I could see Mlle.

  26. The Archbishop hesitated on the threshold of my room, and was about to pass on, fearing no doubt to disturb me, and perhaps foreseeing the probable difficulties of conversation.

  27. In the later years of his life he was nominated Archbishop of St. Andrew's; but his humility shrank from the burden, and he prevailed upon his religious superiors to prevent the election.

  28. In 1618 the Cardinal-Archbishop of Rheims presented an arm-bone of the saint to the Scots College in Rome.

  29. There was nothing remarkable in either poem; but I was called upon, among other scholars, to write verses upon the completion of the second centenary from the foundation of the school in 1585, by Archbishop Sandys.

  30. He much admired Mrs. Barbauld's Essays, and sent a copy of them, with a laudatory letter upon them, to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  31. Archbishop Moor; and before his long life was closed, twenty-six bishops had been consecrated in America, by himself.

  32. Vassian (archbishop of Moscow) letter of, to Ivan III.

  33. They lavished, however, their praises upon the clergy, especially upon the Archbishop Vassian, whose letter to the grand prince was read and re-read throughout the kingdom with the greatest enthusiasm.

  34. The letter was written by Vassian, the archbishop of Moscow, and was signed, on behalf of the clergy, by several of the higher ecclesiastics.

  35. As soon as he had notified his election to the King of Poland, his father, archbishop of Rostow, was set at liberty and sent home.

  36. The archbishop was stripped of his canonical robes, clad in the dress of a harlequin, paraded through the streets on a gray mare, an object of derision to the people, and then was imprisoned for life.

  37. His father was archbishop of Rostow, a man of exalted reputation, both for genius and piety.

  38. March 21--Archbishop of Cologne asks children for prayers and offerings, and suggests that they do without new clothes at confirmation.

  39. March 20--Serbian Legation in London sends appeal to United States for aid for Serbia from the Archbishop of Belgrade.

  40. He took pains to clear the Jesuits of it, and laid the blame of it chiefly on the king, on Madame de Maintenon, and the Archbishop of Paris.

  41. This design was checked by Archbishop Laud; and White, among others, received a severe censure in the Star-Chamber.

  42. He restored the reputation of the church, not only in Rome and Romagna, but throughout the whole of Italy; he recovered Bologna from the archbishop of Milan, and compelled the Romans to accept a foreign senator appointed annually by the pope.

  43. Having acquired these ideas, they communicated them to Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, who, being ambitious and recently offended by the Medici, willingly adopted their views.

  44. The people took possession of their houses, and Francesco, naked as they found him, was led to the palace, and hanged beside the archbishop and the rest.

  45. Agnolo, hopeless of obtaining pardon, went to Rome, where, joining the archbishop and other refugees, they used every available means to injure the commercial credit of the Medici in that city.

  46. Giovanni di Neroni, then archbishop of Florence, to avoid a greater evil, became a voluntary exile at Rome, and to many other citizens who fled, various places of banishment were appointed.

  47. But when the citizens were united in her defense, an archbishop of Milan and a pope were unable to subdue it, and, after many years of war, were compelled to retire with disgrace.

  48. Agnolo Acciajuoli was at this time archbishop of Florence, and by his discourses had formerly greatly favored the duke, and procured him many followers among the higher class of the people.

  49. Peg Woffington charmed Burke, and incited him to his first successful literary effort; and Archbishop Tillotson profited by the elocution of Butterton.

  50. Jeremy Taylor compared human life to an inn, and Archbishop Leighton used to say he would prefer to die in one.

  51. Archbishop Hamilton was hanged at Stirling in 1571 for alleged complicity in the murder of Darnley, and is said to have admitted that he was a party to the murder of Murray.

  52. Nephew of Francois de Harlay, archbishop of Rouen, he was presented to the abbey of Jumieges immediately on leaving the College de Navarre, and he was only twenty-six when he succeeded his uncle in the archiepiscopal see.

  53. Early in 1527 the attention of James Beaton, archbishop of St Andrews, was directed to the heretical preaching of the young priest, whereupon he ordered that Hamilton should be formally summoned and accused.

  54. Having incurred the displeasure of the Protestants, now the dominant party in Scotland, the archbishop was imprisoned in 1563.

  55. The archbishop had three children by his mistress, Grizzel Sempill.

  56. I said that the letter for the Holy Father was sent that his Worship might see it if he was there, and also the Lord Archbishop of Seville, as the King might not have opportunity to read it.

  57. And, characteristically, he obtained the support of the archbishop and seven other prelates in their approval of his wish that they should "recommend visits and offerings to Chichester, for the repair and completion of the cathedral.

  58. Aethelric had been consecrated by Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was removed from the Primacy by William the Conqueror to make room for Lanfranc, his own nominee.

  59. The canons had elected Robert Passelew, but the archbishop objected.

  60. Ecgfrith and his witan had banished #Wilfrith#, Archbishop of York, from his see.

  61. After occupying the see for about eight years, he succeeded Dunstan as Archbishop of Canterbury.

  62. And in consequence the archbishop desired to restore some sense of order and decency to the minds of both the clergy and laity by replacing the altars in their proper positions again.

  63. Whitchurche, whose device is given below, is said to have married the widow of Archbishop Cranmer, and is known to have been living in 1560.

  64. Archbishop Parker, and Burghley the Lord Treasurer, had good libraries of well-bound books, and one specimen from Bothwell's collection is known to exist.

  65. The archbishop of Revel, and the Abbot of Pardis, were likewise invited to assist, who failed not at the proper hour to present themselves at the castle.

  66. The General became impatient, and forced the archbishop down the steps.

  67. The archbishop bowed to the right learned canon, and he bowed to the rest.

  68. The archbishop of Revel was also of the same sentiment, but the Abbot of Pardis applauded this idea of the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

  69. They must be driven out by force," replied the archbishop of Riga, "and the power to do this was given to bishops from above.

  70. Archbishop Sancroft: and our Essay for the biographic interest of the poems on the Gunpowder-Plot.

  71. The Imperial officers present urged his admission, on the ground that "the most holy Archbishop Leo hath restored him to the Episcopal office, and the most pious Emperor hath ordered that he should assist at the holy Council.

  72. At the further end of the library we have the Church, represented by an Archbishop and five Bishops; also a Judge, in a full-bottomed wig, who has evidently got in by mistake.

  73. In this hermitage he found the holy man who had been archbishop of Canterbury, and who had come hither to escape Mordred's rage.

  74. He that sang mass was the archbishop of Canterbury, and with him was Sir Bevidere.

  75. Fathers McKenna and McMahon have received permission from Archbishop Williams to solicit subscriptions in the Archdiocese of Boston.

  76. Errington, Archbishop of Trebizond, which took place at Prior Park, Bath, England.

  77. During his recent visit to Rome the Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney made the acquaintance of the Rev.

  78. Archbishop Errington was of a kindly and generous disposition, and performed many sterling but unostentatious acts of charity.

  79. Gounod, when lately at Reims, had been asked by the Archbishop to compose a Mass in honor of Joan of Arc.

  80. It is profusely illustrated and contains besides the Almanac a good portrait of the Archbishop of Baltimore with other engravings.

  81. The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has written to Rome in favor of the canonization of Joan of Arc.

  82. The question is, what did the archbishop find?


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archbishop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.