Example sentences for: archbishop

How can you use “archbishop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , Thackeray reports on Joe Sedley's drunken avowal to wed Becky Sharp the next morning, even if he had to “knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth,” in order to have him in readiness to perform the ceremony.

  • This action spelled the end of public tolerance of the regime, which collapsed eight months later when the junta attempted to overthrow the Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios, provoking the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

  • For this reason, in Archbishop Anselm's Canons, made in the Council at London in 1102, Priests are enjoined not to go to drinking-bouts, nor to drink to Pegs.

  • After the war he studied in Rome, boarding an ecclesiastical fast track: auxiliary bishop of Krakow in 1958; archbishop in 1964; and cardinal in 1967.

  • The nearby Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, housed in the former archbishop’s palace, exhibits an excellent collection of medieval sculpture and religious paintings.


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