What's the difference between archbishopric and archdiocese?
Archbishopric
Definition:
(n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) The son of railway worker and a houswife from the middle-class neighbourhood of Flores, after he became archibishop of the city in 1998 he routinely turned down invitations to eat at restaurants and only left the archbishopric for meals at small soup kitchens.
(2) This study, the first of a series on consanguinity in the Archbishopric of Toledo from 1900 to 1979, analyses in detail the types of consanguineous mating in a population of considerable size, some 650,000 persons, in Central Spain.
(3) One of Nicholas’ tasks was to help establish the Church’s structure in Norway - establishing the archbishopric.
Archdiocese
Definition:
(n.) The diocese of an archbishop.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(2) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(3) "May God, who has blessed me so often in my ministry, continue to bless and help me in the years which remain for me on Earth and may he shower his blessings on all the peoples of Scotland especially those I was privileged to serve in a special way in the archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh."
(4) The panel includes multiple Democratic lawmakers from heavily Catholic districts in the Los Angeles area, where the archdiocese actively opposed the legislation.
(5) The capital's archdiocese has voiced the most vehement opposition to the initiatives so far with an editorial titled "Stoned City" in its weekly publication From the Faith.
(6) Two more reports into the church's protection of sex predator priests in the Dublin archdiocese and the south-west diocese of Cloyne may be published later this year.
(7) The General Medical Council declined to comment on the forthcoming hearing into Keilloh but Peter Jennings, press secretary for the archdiocese of Birmingham, said of the criticism of Madden: "The Catholic church takes this matter extremely seriously.
(8) A statement from the Syrian Orthodox archdiocese of Homs, Hama and their environs confirmed the kidnappings, saying that Isis was holding approximately 250 Christians captive in Qaryatain.
(9) He said it was clear "beyond peradventure that those who attend the masses are nearly all what the archdiocese calls 'non-celibate gay people' who intend to continue to defy Catholic teaching".
(10) They include Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who imposed a "zero tolerance" policy on clerical sex abuse in his archdiocese of Boston, and George Pell, the archbishop of Sydney, who gave an unusually forthright interview before the election of Francis in which he said the leaking of the former pope Benedict's correspondence last year had identified "substantial problems" that needed to be addressed "in a real way".
(11) He largely escaped notice outside of the Bay Area until the fall of 2014, when the archdiocese’s high schools – some of the few unionized religious schools on the west coast – began labor negotiations.
(12) Spotlight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Following a strong showing at Venice, Tom McCarthy’s bracing account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer prizewinning investigation into a massive child molestation cover-up within the local Catholic archdiocese earned similarly rave notices at Telluride.
(13) A spokesman for the archdiocese did not immediately return a phone message Thursday.
(14) The Archdiocese of Birmingham confirmed that Archbishop Bernard Longley will interview Madden when he has read the full report.
(15) These confirmed that he was born John Anthony Gillis, the last of 10 children, the seventh son, to parents who worked for the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Detroit.
(16) The archdiocese appealed for emergency humanitarian aid, medical supplies and financial support to assist the Christian refugees who took flight from Isis.
(17) Bishop Stephen Robson, who is auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, the cardinal's diocese, told the congregation: "A number of allegations of inappropriate behaviour have been made against the cardinal.
(18) In a statement , the archdiocese said it was one of the largest supporters of services for the homeless in the city.
(19) The letters were sent as part of settlements under the church’s Melbourne Response, set up in 1996 to handle allegations of clergy sex abuse in the archdiocese.
(20) Officials of the archdiocese hastily began the process of dismantling the sprinklers after the local CBS franchise, KCBS Radio, revealed that homeless people and their belongings were routinely being soaked by the automated system.