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ARCHBISHOP, eccl. law. The chief of the clergy of a whole province. He has the, inspection of the bishops of that province, as well as of the inferiorclergy, and may deprive them on notorious cause. The archbishop has also hisown diocese, in which he exercises, episcopal jurisdiction, as in hisprovince he exercises archiepiscopal authority. 1 Bl. Com. 380; L. Raym.541; Code, 1, 2.

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