archbishop

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From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “to watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to examine”), equivalent to arch- + bishop.

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: aartsbiskop — senior bishop
• Albanian: kryepeshkop — senior bishop
• Arabic: أَرْشِي اِبِسْقُوبُس (ʔaršī ibisqūbus) — senior bishop
• Armenian: արքեպիսկոպոս (arkʻepiskopos) — senior bishop
• Asturian: arzobispu — senior bishop
• Azerbaijani: arxiyepiskop — senior bishop
• Bashkir: архиепископ (arxiyepiskop) — senior bishop
• Basque: artzapezpiku — senior bishop
• Belarusian: арцыбі́скуп (arcybískup) — senior bishop
• Belarusian: архіяпі́скап (arxijapískap) — senior bishop
• Central Bikol: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Breton: arc’heskob — senior bishop
• Bulgarian: архиепи́скоп (arhiepískop) — senior bishop
• Catalan: arquebisbe — senior bishop
• Cebuano: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Chinese Cantonese: 大主教 (daai6 zyu2 gaau3) — senior bishop
• Hakka Chinese: 大主教 (thai-chú-kâu) — senior bishop
• Chinese: 大主教 (tōa-chú-kàu) — senior bishop
• Chinese Mandarin: 大主教 (dàzhǔjiào) — senior bishop
• Czech: arcibiskup — senior bishop
• Danish: ærkebiskop — senior bishop
• Danish: ærkebisp — senior bishop
• Dutch: aartsbisschop — senior bishop
• Esperanto: ĉefepiskopo — senior bishop
• Estonian: peapiiskop — senior bishop
• Faroese: erkabiskupur — senior bishop
• Finnish: arkkipiispa — senior bishop
• French: archevêque — senior bishop
• Middle French: archevesque — senior bishop
• Old French: archevesque — senior bishop
• West-Frisian: aartsbiskop — senior bishop
• Friulian: arcivescul — senior bishop
• Galician: arcebispo — senior bishop
• Gallurese: alcièscamu — senior bishop
• Georgian: მთავარეპისკოპოსი (mtavareṗisḳoṗosi) — senior bishop
• Georgian: არქიეპისკოპოსი (arkieṗisḳoṗosi) — senior bishop
• German: Erzbischof — senior bishop
• Bavarian German: Erzbischof — senior bishop
• Central Franconian: ärzbischoff — senior bishop
• Greek: αρχιεπίσκοπος (archiepískopos) — senior bishop
• Ancient Greek: ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos) — senior bishop
• Greenlandic: biskorpiuneq — senior bishop
• Hebrew: אַרְכִיבִּישׁוֹף — senior bishop
• Hiligaynon: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Hungarian: érsek — senior bishop
• Icelandic: erkibiskup — senior bishop
• Ido: arkiepiskopo — senior bishop
• Ilocano: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Indonesian: uskup agung — senior bishop
• Interlingua: archiepiscopo — senior bishop
• Irish: ardeaspag — senior bishop
• Italian: arcivescovo — senior bishop
• Japanese: 大主教 (daishukyō) — senior bishop
• Japanese: 大司教 (daishikyō) — senior bishop
• Javanese: uskup agung — senior bishop
• Kannada: ಆರ್ಚ್ ಬಿಷಪ್ (ārc biṣap) — senior bishop
• Kashubian: arcëbiskùp — senior bishop
• Kazakh: архиепископ (arxiepiskop) — senior bishop
• Korean: 대주교 (daejugyo) — senior bishop
• Kyrgyz: архиепископ (arhiyepiskop) — senior bishop
• Latin: archepiscopus — senior bishop
• Latin: archiepiscopus — senior bishop
• Latin: archipraesul — senior bishop
• Latvian: arhibīskaps — senior bishop
• Limburgish: aersbisjóp — senior bishop
• Lithuanian: arkivyskupas — senior bishop
• Luxembourgish: Äerzbëschof — senior bishop
• Macedonian: архиеписко́п (arhiepiskóp) — senior bishop
• Macedonian: на́дбискуп (nádbiskup) — senior bishop
• Malagasy: arseveka — senior bishop
• Malay: ketua biskop — senior bishop
• Malayalam: മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത (metrāppōlītta) — senior bishop
• Maltese: arċisqof — senior bishop
• Manx: ard-aspick — senior bishop
• Māori: pīhopa matua — senior bishop
• Māori: ākipīhopa — senior bishop
• Middle English: erchevesque — senior bishop
• Middle English: erchebischop — senior bishop
• Norman: archêvêque — senior bishop
• Norwegian Bokmål: erkebiskop — senior bishop
• Norwegian Bokmål: erkebisp — senior bishop
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erkebiskop — senior bishop
• Norwegian Nynorsk: erkebisp — senior bishop
• Occitan: arquebisbe — senior bishop
• Old English: ærcebiscop — senior bishop
• Papiamentu: arsobispu — senior bishop
• Piedmontese: arsivësco — senior bishop
• Pohnpeian: arkipisop — senior bishop
• Polish: arcybiskup — senior bishop
• Portuguese: arcebispo — senior bishop
• Romanian: arhiepiscop — senior bishop
• Romanian: mitropolit — senior bishop
• Romansh: archuvestg — senior bishop
• Romansh: arzuestg — senior bishop
• Romansh: arziuestg — senior bishop
• Romansh: archuvas-ch — senior bishop
• Romansh: archovais-ch — senior bishop
• Russian: архиепи́скоп (arxijepískop) — senior bishop
• Campidanese Sardinian: arciobispu — senior bishop
• Sardinian: archibíscamu — senior bishop
• Sassarese: atzibèscamu — senior bishop
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-easbaig — senior bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: архиепископ — senior bishop
• Serbo-Croatian: arhiepiskop — senior bishop
• Silesian: arcybiskup — senior bishop
• Slovak: arcibiskup — senior bishop
• Slovene: nadškof — senior bishop
• Lower Sorbian: arcybiskup — senior bishop
• Upper Sorbian: arcybiskup — senior bishop
• Upper Sorbian: arcybiskop — senior bishop
• Spanish: arzobispo — senior bishop
• Swahili: askofu mkuu — senior bishop
• Swedish: ärkebiskop — senior bishop
• Tagalog: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Tajik: архиепископ (arxiyepiskop) — senior bishop
• Tamil: பேராயர் (pērāyar) — senior bishop
• Thai: อาร์ชบิชอป — senior bishop
• Thai: อัครสังฆราช — senior bishop
• Thai: อัครมุขนายก — senior bishop
• Turkish: başpiskopos — senior bishop
• Turkmen: arhiýepiskop — senior bishop
• Ukrainian: архієпи́скоп (arxijepýskop) — senior bishop
• Uzbek: архиепископ (arxiyepiskop) — senior bishop
• Uzbek: arxiyepiskop — senior bishop
• Vietnamese: tổng giám mục — senior bishop
• Waray-Waray: arsobispo — senior bishop
• Welsh: archesgob — senior bishop
• Yakut: архиепископ (arqiyepiskop) — senior bishop
• Yiddish: אַרציביסקופּ (artsibiskup) — senior bishop