archdeacon

How To Use archdeacon In A Sentence

• She looked towards the Archdeacon and recognised the signs of some one about to take the plunge.
• Dioceses were divided into archdeaconries, and archdeaconries into rural deaneries.
• This remarkable transformation, no doubt in some degree inevitable, was actually brought about chiefly through the instrumentality of a single man, a certain English archdeacon of Welsh descent, Geoffrey of Monmouth. A History of English Literature
• In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
• The archdeacon John Collas will administer the Adelaide diocese until a new archbishop is found early next year.
• The nuptial ceremony was performed by the venerable archdeacon John Murray assisted by Dean Timothy O'Connor PP.
• The chapter of Vexiö consisted of dean, archdeacon, subdean, and eleven prebendaries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
• A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy. Doctor Thorne
• There is mention of this meal in the report of Archdeacon Theodosius and in the anonymous little work called "The Jerusalem Breviary, " as also in subsequent writings.
• `But wouldn't becoming a canon be a step down from being an archdeacon? ULTIMATE PRIZES