# He is the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two-thirds of England.

; Metropolitan bishop: A metropolitan bishop is an archbishop in charge of an ecclesiastical province, or group of dioceses, and in addition to having immediate jurisdiction over his own archdiocese, also exercises some oversight over the other dioceses within that province.

In the Latin Rite, metropolitans are always archbishops ; in many Eastern churches, the title is " metropolitan ," with some of these churches using " archbishop " as a separate office.

On Holy Thursday they are shorn, and from the wool is woven the pallium which the pope gives to a newly consecrated metropolitan archbishop as a sign of his jurisdiction and his union with the pope.

After Boniface's third trip to Rome, Charles Martel erected four dioceses in Bavaria ( Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, and Passau ) and gave them Boniface as archbishop and metropolitan over all Germany east of the Rhine.

* August 5 – Uppsala is recognized as the seat of the Swedish metropolitan with the coronation of its first archbishop Stefan by the pope.

Monreale was the seat of the metropolitan archbishop of Sicily, which thenceforth exerted a large influence over Sicily.

He is known as the metropolitan archbishop of that see.

In the Roman Catholic Church, canon 436 of the Code of Canon Law indicates what these powers and duties are for a Latin Rite metropolitan archbishop, while those of the head of an autonomous ( sui iuris ) Eastern Catholic Church are indicated in canon 157 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

The Oriental Orthodox generally follow the pattern of the Slavic tradition with respect to the archbishop / metropolitan distinction.

Bishops may have the title of archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch, all of which are considered honorifics.

The archbishop may have metropolitan authority over any other ( then ' suffragan ') bishops and their dioceses within his ecclesiastical province.

Gregory intended for Augustine to become the metropolitan archbishop over all of southern Britain, including over the bishops already serving among the Britons.

He later became metropolitan archbishop of Ephesus and died in Constantinople in c. 1090.

It became a naval station and the seat of the Corrector Venetiarum et Histriae ; a mint was established, of which the coins were very numerous, and the bishop obtained the rank of metropolitan archbishop.

This was in part the continuation of a policy begun under his grandfather, Pippin of Herstal, and continued to under his father, Charles Martel, who erected four dioceses in Bavaria ( Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, and Passau ) and gave them Boniface as archbishop and metropolitan over all Germany east of the Rhine, with his seat at Mainz.

* John Anderson ( archbishop of Moosonee ) ( 1866 – 1943 ), Anglican Church of Canada metropolitan bishop

A church that is autonomous has its highest-ranking bishop, such as an archbishop or metropolitan, appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but is self-governing in all other respects.

* Metropolis can refer to the mother city of a colony, the see of a metropolitan archbishop or a Metropolitan area — a major urban population centre.

The archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen was the metropolitan of Roskilde, and the fact that Gerbrand was consecrated by an English archbishop later caused friction between the bishop and his metropolitan.

A metropolitan archbishop may wear his pallium as a mark of his jurisdiction not only in his own archdiocese but anywhere in his ecclesiastical province whenever he celebrates Mass ( Canon 437, Code of Canon Law, 1983 ).

This often resulted in conflicts over whether or not the archbishop had jurisdiction to conduct these visits, but Peckham was also papal legate, which added a layer of complexity to the resulting disputes.

William took Stigand with him to Normandy in 1067, although whether this was because William did not trust the archbishop, as the medieval chronicler William of Poitiers alleges, is not certain.

Theobald also had a dispute with St Augustine's Abbey over the right of the archbishop to receive annual payments, and whether those payments were for sacraments performed by the archbishop, which would have been uncanonical, or were for other reasons.

This one was with Roger, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury and revolved around whether or not the abbey depended directly on the pope or if the archbishop had jurisdictional rights over the abbey.

Alberic was there as a papal legate to resolve a long-running dispute as to whether the bishop of Glasgow was subordinate to the archbishop of York.

It is possible that there was a " Council of Lords " ( Совет Господ ) that was headed by the archbishop and met in the archiepiscopal palace ( and in the Palace of Facets after 1433 ), but more recently Jonas Granberg has called into doubt whether such a body every really existed ; he argues it is, in fact, an invention of historians reading too much into sparse sources.

Patriarch Neilus Kerameus was not sure whether he could trust Dionysius and sent two metropolitans to Moscow, who were supposed to depose Pimen and install the archbishop of Suzdal.

It is uncertain whether robes from a university other than Oxford or Cambridge can be used when the archbishop is not an Oxford or Cambridge graduate

Before Clemens August became archbishop he was asked by an agent of the government whether, if he should be set over a diocese, he would keep in force the agreement regarding mixed marriages, which was made " in accordance with the papal Brief of 25 March 1830 ", between Archbishop von Spiegel and Minister Bunsen on 19 June 1834.

* 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.

After this, he was especially known for acting as a mediator between conflicting parties ( In Cologne he is not only known for being the founder of Germany's oldest university there, but also for " the big verdict " ( der Große Schied ) of 1258, which brought an end to the conflict between the citizens of Cologne and the archbishop.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

The current archbishop is the Most Reverend Rowan Williams.

# As spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop, although without legal authority outside England, is recognised by convention as primus inter pares ( first among equals ) of all Anglican primates worldwide.

The current archbishop, the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Douglas Williams, is the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.

In addition to his office, the archbishop also holds a number of other positions ; for example, he is Joint President of the Council of Christians and Jews in the United Kingdom.

* The Bishop of Dover is given the additional title of " Bishop in Canterbury " and empowered to act almost as if he were the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, since the archbishop is so frequently away fulfilling national and international duties.

In debates in the House of Lords, the archbishop is referred to as " The Most Reverend Primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury ".

The archbishop is legally entitled to sign his name as " Cantuar " ( from the Latin for Canterbury ).

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

The third book is about the deeds of archbishop Adalbert and is considered a milestone in medieval biographical writing.

; Archbishop: An archbishop is the bishop of an archdiocese.

:" In pity of their errors, our archbishop ordained as their diocesan capital Birka, which is in the middle of Sweden ( Sueoniae ) facing Jumne ( Iumnem ), the capital of the Slavs, and equally distant from all the coasts of the surrounding sea.

* The cardinal is also a fairy chess piece, also known as the archbishop

It is unlikely that the very fair and loyal archbishop would do such a thing behind the king's back.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

If a bishop, especially one acting as an ordinary – a head of a diocese or archdiocese – is to be ordained, three bishops must usually co-consecrate him with one bishop, usually an archbishop or the bishop of the place, being the chief consecrating prelate.

* 1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.

Aside from these, thereafter there is no eyewitness to events in Jerusalem until William of Tyre, archbishop of Tyre and chancellor of Jerusalem, who began writing around 1167 and died around 1184, although he includes much information about the First Crusade and the intervening years from the death of Fulcher to his own time, drawn mainly from the writings of Albert of Aix and Fulcher himself.