archepiscopal

Etymology

See archiepiscopal.

adj

1. (ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
   A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,[…]. 1847, Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, volume 3, page 167
   Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum. 1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen, editors, The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages, page 131
   Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate. 2010, James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545, page 177