archbishops

Noun

archbishop (plural archbishops)

1. A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
   • Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler
2. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the bishop and the knight.