Steve Rouse wrote:
>Please forgive a Summer quibble but there is no such thing as an
'archdiocese' (except in popular parlance I suppose).
Caint resist a summer quibble:
archdiocese a.rtS,d<e>i;osis. [f. arch- 4 + diocese. ] The see or jurisdiction
of an archbishop.
1844 Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xiii. 265 Within the arch-diocese [of
York].
1869 H. E. Manning in Echo 6 Apr., Permission that collections may be
made in this archdiocese.
Thus speaketh that flakie English source, the OED.
I use "province" myself, to impress my friends and fear my enemies.
3. Eccl.
a. The district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a
metropolitan (in quot. 1377 applied to a diocese); formerly, also, that within
the jurisdiction of a synod of a Presbyterian church.
1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 562 Euery bisshop..is holden, Thorw his
prouynce to passe and to his peple to shewe hym.
1425 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 291/1 Write to the Chirche of York for that Provynce.
1454 Rolls of Parlt. V. 249/1 The Clergie of the Province of Caunterbury.
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