Talk:archpriest

More specific definition?
Chambers 1908 has: "a chief priest: in early times, a kind of vicar to the bishop; later, a rural dean; the title given to the superiors appointed by the Pope to govern the secular priests sent into England from the foreign seminaries during the period 1598-1621". Equinox ◑ 06:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)