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nounarchprimate (plural archprimates)
plural archprimates
- The chief primate of a Christian church.
For the peace and good of the church is not terminated in the schismless estate of one or two kingdoms, but should be provided for by the joint consultation of all reformed Christendom, that all controversy may end in the final pronounce or canon of one archprimate or protestant pope.
1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church Government, Urged Against Prelaty, Book I, Ch. VI
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