Example sentences for: archbishop

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

  • The archbishop of New York, traditionally the most powerful American Catholic, is expected to step down soon.

  • Pope John Paul II said it to Cardinal John O'Connor about his offer to resign as archbishop of New York.

  • On 25 March 1821, Archbishop Germanos raised a new blue-and-white banner in Patras in the Peloponnese and declared independence, but it took 11 years and some formidable foreign help for the Greeks to win their war against Turkish rule.

  • George Carey, the archbishop of Canterbury, noted that "it hurts to be denied the Lord's Supper by a fellow disciple of Jesus Christ."

  • 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.


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