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 roman curia, the word emeritus is added to his. Archbishop, in the christian church, a bishop who, in addition to having ordinary episcopal authority in an assigned diocese, usually has jurisdiction (but no superiority of order) over the. The meaning of archbishop is a bishop at the head of an ecclesiastical province or one of equivalent honorary rank.
An archbishop primarily governs an archdiocese as its chief shepherd, exercising teaching, sanctifying, and governing authority. The archbishop of canterbury is the church’s most senior bishop. An archbishop is a bishop who holds a higher rank due to his leading an archdiocese, which may be larger or older than its surrounding dioceses.
However a person can become an archbishop without first being a bishop, in which case he must be ordained a bishop before being created an archbishop and installed.