Usage examples (29)

• The archpriest was the first in rank among priests attached to such mother-churches.
• Arnaud de Cervolles, one of the most celebrated adventurers of the 14th century, called the archpriest because though a layman he possessed the ecclesiastical fief of...
• The latter party, by means of their influence at Rome, had secured the appointment of an "archpriest" as superior of the English mission.
• Dominicus, 'a Greek archpriest of Brundus, and he commends his nuncio to