Understanding the Role of an Archbishop Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

after the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California, the archbishop resigned.

as well as being Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget (pictured) was also bishop of the titular see of Telmesse and archbishop of the titular see of Martianopolis.

in 1960, Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara became the first papal representative to visit the British Houses of Parliament in four centuries.

while Archbishop of Adelaide, Leonard Faulkner refused to eliminate the practice of communal confession, despite pressure from the Vatican.

Władysław Oporowski, archbishop and primate of Poland, was a chief political rival of cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki.

Most Rev. S. Arulappa, Archbishop of Hyderabad, was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India.

Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988.

Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother.

Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, surmounted the Malaysian government's ban on the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims, on constitutional grounds.

Archbishop Leon Tourian was assassinated in a Manhattan church on Christmas Eve, 1933, for his refusal to publicly support independent Armenia.

Understanding the Role of an Archbishop

1 Many of the titular sees to which ________ and heads of departments of the Roman Curia who are not cardinals are assigned are not of archiepiscopal rank.

2 [1] In some cases, such a see is the only one in a country, such as ________[2] or Monaco,[3] too small to be divided into several dioceses so as to form an ecclesiastical province.

3 If an archbishop resigns his see without being transferred to another, as in the case of retirement or assignment to head a department of the ________, the word "emeritus" is added to his former title, and he is called Archbishop Emeritus of his former see.

4 However, the word "archeparch" is not found in the ________.

5 In Roman Catholic heraldry, an archbishop has an ecclesiastical hat with ten tassels on each side of his ________, while a bishop has only six.

6 In the Eastern Orthodox Church of Greek tradition, the title of Archbishop usually indicates some form of leadership of the other bishops of the local church (who may be metropolitans), as in the ________ and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

7 An archbishop (from Greek ἀρχι-, chief, and ἐπίσκοπος, bishop) is a ________ of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest (presbyter) and bishop.

8 An example is the Archdiocese of Hobart in ________, associated with the Metropolitan ecclesiastical province of Melbourne, but not part of it.

9 Accordingly, one does not become an archbishop by ________.

10 Episcopal sees are generally arranged in groups in which the bishop who is the ________ of one of them has certain powers and duties of oversight over the other sees.

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