From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “I watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) σκοπέω (skopéō, “I examine”), equivalent to arch- bishop.
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/, (less often) /ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/
archbishop (plural archbishops, feminine archbishopess)
- A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
senior bishop
- Afrikaans: aartsbiskop (af)
- Albanian: kryepeshkop (sq) m
- Arabic: أَرْشِي اِبِسْقُوبُس m (ʔaršī ibisqūbus)
- Armenian: արքեպիսկոպոս (hy) (arkʻepiskopos)
- Asturian: arzobispu m
- Azerbaijani: arxiyepiskop
- Bashkir: архиепископ (arxiyepiskop)
- Basque: artzapezpiku
- Bavarian: Erzbischof m
- Belarusian: арцыбі́скуп m (arcybískup), архіяпі́скап m (arxijapískap)
- Bikol Central: arsobispo (bcl)
- Breton: arc’heskob m
- Bulgarian: архиепи́скоп m (arhiepískop)
- Catalan: arquebisbe (ca) m
- Cebuano: arsobispo
- Central Franconian: ärzbischoff
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大主教 (daai6 zyu2 gaau3)
- Hakka: 大主教 (thai-chú-kâu)
- Hokkien: 大主教 (tōa-chú-kàu)
- Mandarin: 大主教 (zh) (dàzhǔjiào)
- Czech: arcibiskup (cs) m
- Danish: ærkebiskop c, ærkebisp c
- Dutch: aartsbisschop (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉefepiskopo
- Estonian: peapiiskop
- Faroese: erkabiskupur m
- Finnish: arkkipiispa (fi)
- French: archevêque (fr) m
- Middle French: archevesque m
- Old French: archevesque m
- Friulian: arcivescul m
- Galician: arcebispo (gl) m
- Gallurese: alcièscamu
- Georgian: მთავარეპისკოპოსი (mtavareṗisḳoṗosi), არქიეპისკოპოსი (arkieṗisḳoṗosi)
- German: Erzbischof (de) m
- Greek: αρχιεπίσκοπος (el) m (archiepískopos)
- Ancient: ἀρχιεπίσκοπος m (arkhiepískopos)
- Greenlandic: biskorpiuneq
- Hebrew: אַרְכִיבִּישׁוֹף (he) m
- Hiligaynon: arsobispo
- Hungarian: érsek (hu)
- Icelandic: erkibiskup (is) m
- Ido: arkiepiskopo (io)
- Ilocano: arsobispo
- Indonesian: uskup agung (id)
- Interlingua: archiepiscopo
- Irish: ardeaspag m
- Italian: arcivescovo (it) m
- Japanese: (in Orthodox Church and Anglicanism) 大主教 (ja) (だいしゅきょう, daishukyō), (in Catholic Church) 大司教 (ja) (だいしきょう, daishikyō)
- Javanese: uskup agung
- Kannada: ಆರ್ಚ್ ಬಿಷಪ್ (ārc biṣap)
- Kashubian: arcëbiskùp m
- Kazakh: архиепископ (arxiepiskop)
- Korean: 대주교 (daejugyo)
- Kyrgyz: архиепископ (arhiyepiskop)
- Latin: archepiscopus m, archiepiscopus (la) m, archipraesul m
- Latvian: arhibīskaps m
- Limburgish: aersbisjóp m
- Lithuanian: arkivyskupas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Äerzbëschof m
- Macedonian: архиеписко́п m (arhiepiskóp), на́дбискуп m (nádbiskup)
- Malagasy: arseveka (mg)
- Malay: ketua biskop
- Malayalam: മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത (ml) (metrāppōlītta)
- Maltese: arċisqof
- Manx: ard-aspick m
- Maori: pīhopa matua, ākipīhopa
- Middle English: erchevesque, erchebischop
- Norman: archêvêque m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: erkebiskop m, erkebisp m
- Nynorsk: erkebiskop m, erkebisp m
- Occitan: arquebisbe m
- Old English: ærcebiscop m
- Papiamentu: arsobispu
- Piedmontese: arsivësco m
- Polish: arcybiskup (pl) m
- Portuguese: arcebispo (pt) m
- Romanian: arhiepiscop (ro) m, mitropolit (ro) m
- Romansch: archuvestg m, arzuestg m, arziuestg m, archuvas-ch m, archovais-ch m
- Russian: архиепи́скоп (ru) m (arxijepískop)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: arciobispu m
- Logudorese: archibíscamu m
- Sassarese: atzibèscamu
- Scottish Gaelic: àrd-easbaig m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: архиепископ m
- Roman: arhiepiskop (sh) m
- Silesian: arcybiskup m
- Slovak: arcibiskup (sk) m
- Slovene: nadškof (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: arcybiskup m
- Upper Sorbian: arcybiskup m, arcybiskop m
- Spanish: arzobispo (es) m
- Swahili: askofu mkuu
- Swedish: ärkebiskop (sv) c
- Tagalog: arsobispo (tl)
- Tajik: архиепископ (arxiyepiskop)
- Tamil: பேராயர் (ta) (pērāyar)
- Thai: อาร์ชบิชอป, อัครสังฆราช, อัครมุขนายก
- Turkish: başpiskopos (tr)
- Turkmen: arhiýepiskop
- Ukrainian: архієпи́скоп (uk) m (arxijepýskop)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: архиепископ (uz) (arxiyepiskop)
- Roman: arxiyepiskop (uz)
- Vietnamese: tổng giám mục (vi)
- Waray-Waray: arsobispo
- Welsh: archesgob (cy) m
- West Frisian: aartsbiskop (fy) c
- Yakut: архиепископ (arqiyepiskop)
- Yiddish: אַרציביסקופּ m (artsibiskup)
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