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archbishop

archiepiscopus la

Bishop of higher rank in many Christian denominations

  • Also called archeparch, Archiepískopou

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Succession in office

Everyone recorded as holding it

Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 39 holders
  • 4 overlapping pairs
  • 34 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 361 CE – 389 CE Donatian of Reims French bishop and saint
  2. from 20 April 798 CE Arno of Salzburg Roman Catholic archbishop Has references
  3. 873 CE – 6 April 885 CE Methodius of Thessaloniki Christian missionary to the Slavs
  4. from 1407 CE Arakel Syunetsi Armenian archbishop, scholar, music theorist, and Metropolitan of Syunik (circa 1350–1425) Has references
  5. 10 June 1961 CE – 3 August 1963 CE Nikodim Russian archbishop

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Sources

Sources and evidence

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Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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