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24 unusual facts about Archbishop


Akvavit

The earliest known reference to "aquavit" is found in a 1531 letter from the Danish Lord of Bergenshus castle, Eske Bille to Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norway.

Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria

# Ernest of Bavaria (13 June 1500 – 1560), an eclassiastical official in Passau (1517–40), Cologne, Archbishop in Salzburg (1540–54) and Eichstädt, also administrator and owner of the County of Kladsko (1549–1560)

Anglican Church in Central America

Rev. Armando Guerra was elected to a four-year term of office as primate and has succeeded Archbishop Martin de Jesus Barahona of El Salvador, who has served as primate for the past eight years.

Antonio Bagioli

Teresa's family then relented and the couple married again, this time with John Hughes, Catholic Archbishop of New York City, presiding.

Archbishop's Palace, Charing

Later both Henry VII and Henry VIII stayed at the Palace, the latter on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Asbestos Strike

On March 5, Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau delivered a fiercely pro-union speech asking all Catholics to donate to help the strikers.

Brønshøj

The first mention of the village Brønshøj (Brunshoga), is in a letter dated October 21, 1186 from Pope Urban III to Archbishop Absalon.

Drexel Gomez

His full title became His Grace the Most Reverend Drexel Wellington Gomez, Lord Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of the Church of the West Indies & Bishop of the Diocese Of Nassau & The Bahamas (Including the Turks & Caicos Islands).

Ecclesiastical coup

The Ecclesiastical coup is the name given to the events staged by three bishops of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus against the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III in the period from March 1972 to July 1973.

Fritz Kreisler

Nonetheless, he "radiated a gentleness and refinement not unlike his music," according to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen who visited him frequently during that time (Kreisler and his wife were converts to Catholicism, received into the Church by the Archbishop himself).

Helena Palaiologina

Helena resented her husband having appointed James Archbishop of Nicosia when he was sixteen years old.

I Write What I Like

The book includes a preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu; an introduction by Malusi and Thoko Mpumlwana, who were both involved with Biko in the Black Consciousness Movement; a memoir of Biko by Father Aelred Stubbs, his longtime pastor and friend; and a new foreword by Professor Lewis Gordon.

Ilija, Slovakia

About 1511, the castle with the villages, including Ilija, formed a part of the Archbishop Tomáš Bákociho’s estate.

José Reynal-Restrepo

In August 2011, Reynal was given notice by the company that the Archbishop had agreed to the sale of the Church's property in the town.

Mar Theophilos Training College, Trivandrum

It is administered by the Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum.

Princess Maker

There are 74 possible endings, ranging from humble jobs such as a soldier or a mason, to prestigious jobs such as Archbishop or Prime Minister, to "dark side" jobs such as a prostitute or a crime lord.

Raymond Walter Copp

Most Reverend Raymond Walter Copp, S.S.S.A.,(retired) S.T.D., Ph.D. is Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Northeast, Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church.

Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair

Aedh was blinded by Conchobar on Tairrdelbach's orders but Ruaidrí was protected by the Archbishop of Connacht, Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh.

Schloss Rheydt

The castle's first documented mention dates to 1180, made by the Cologne Archbishop Philip I when he mentioned revenues that were to be collected from the then castle owner, the Lord of Rheydt, in his correspondence.

St Mary's Cathedral, Perth

St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, and seat of its Archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe.

St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Cathedral, Irinjalakuda

The Metropolitan of Ernakulam, Mar Antony Cardinal Padiyara, was made the Major Archbishop.

Tatyana Voronina

Voronina did not continue with professional singing or movie careers, but instead moved to the Martemyanov village of the Don region where she sings and composes music to the words of Archbishop Ioann San-Francissko.

The Nun of Monza

When the Archbishop Federico Borromeo came to know about the scandal he ordered a canonical trial of the nun.

Theodore J. van den Broek

Hearing of the condition of the Native Americans in Michigan (now Wisconsin), he obtained permission from Archbishop John Baptist Purcell of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati to go to them, and arrived at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 4 July 1834.


Alfredo Zecca

Zecca received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, the later pope Francis, then archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Alzamora

Augusto Vargas Alzamora (1922-2000), Peruvian Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

On January 27, 2007 two suffragan bishops, the Right Reverend Craig Botterill and the Right Reverend Carl Reid, were consecrated by the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, Archbishop John Hepworth, assisted by then Diocesan and Metropolitan of the ACCC, Bishop Peter Wilkinson (2005-2012), and retired former diocesan Bishop Robert Mercer, CR (1988-2005).

Archbishop of Hong Kong

The Bishop's House, located in Central, is the office and official residence of the Archbishop.

Barraquer

Francisco Vidal y Barraquer (1868–1943), Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1919

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Nine winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, were signatories to a letter to pressure U.S. President Barack Obama to reject the $7-billion pipeline expansion project by the Canadian-based company TransCanada to build the Keystone XL.

Chaput

Charles J. Chaput, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Christopher Augustine Reynolds

The principal consecrator was Archbishop John Bede Polding of Sydney, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Daniel Murphy of Hobart, Bishop Matthew Quinn of Bathurst, and Bishop James Murray of Maitland.

Daniel M. Buechlein

Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until October 18, 2012 when Pope Benedict appointed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Archbishop-Elect of Indianapolis.

Dermot Ryan

He was ordained a bishop by Pope Paul VI in Rome assisted by Cardinals Bernard Alfrink and William Conway (Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland), on 13 February 1972.

Einarr Hafliðason

He became a priest in 1334 with the benefice of Höskuldsstaðir á Skagaströnd and in 1343 the Archbishop of Nidaros granted him Breiðabólstaður í Vesturhópi, one of the best farms in the region, in what is now Vestur-Húnavatnssýsla, in Northern Iceland.

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos (May 1, 1926 – March 19, 2009) was the Paraguayan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción from his appointment on May 20, 1989, until his retirement on June 12, 2002.

Franjo Kuharić

He was ordained a priest on 15 July 1945 in Zagreb, by Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, archbishop of Zagreb.

George Joseph Lucas

He succeeded Elden Francis Curtiss, and was installed at St. Cecilia Cathedral on July 22, 2009, by His Excellency, The Most Reverend Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the United States.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Gerard la Pucelle

He was also with Peter of Blois for a time in Rome, where he represented Archbishop Richard before the Curia.

Guy Fawkes Night

By 1636, under the leadership of the Arminian Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud, the English church was trying to use 5 November to denounce all seditious practices, and not just popery.

Harry Joseph Flynn

In May 2005, Archbishop Flynn publicly criticized Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty in the Star Tribune for what he perceived as irresponsible tax policies.

House of Cerva

Toma Crijević or Tommaso Cerva (16th century) - Dominican, lawyer and outstanding jurist, was bishop of Trebinje and Mercana, director of the church of Ston between 1541 and 1559 and general vicar of the archbishop of Dubrovnik, Giovanni Angelo Medici, who became Pope Pius IV in 1559.

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (30 October 1873 – 9 August 1938) was the sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on October 29, 1940.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a frequent critic of the church hierarchy, indicates that he fits the mold of a “smiling conservative” in the vein of New York’s Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who is “very gracious but still holds the same positions” as a more pugnacious cleric like Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who has not hesitated to call out Catholic politicians who dissent from church teachings on abortion.

Juan Subercaseaux

Monsignor Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz (August 26, 1896 - August 9, 1942) was a Chilean Roman Catholic archbishop.

Kunigunde of Austria

# Ernest (13 June 1500 – 7 December 1560), an ecclesiastical official in Passau (1517–40), Archbishop in Salzburg (1540–54) and Eichstädt.

Luigi Nazari di Calabiana

In the frame of the hostility between the Holy See and the kingdom of Sardinia (later Kingdom of Italy), Nazari di Calabiana was considered to be on conciliatory positions, while the previous archbishop Ballerini, who during Nazari's reign resided in Seregno near Milan, remained a fierce opponent of the Reign.

Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol

According to the Peace of Lieserhofen, concluded on 27 December 1252, he had to give his sons Meinhard IV and Albert to Archbishop Philipp as hostages.

Michael Mulhall

He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 21 from Archbishop Luigi Ventura, with Archbishops Terrence Prendergast, S.J., and Bishop Nicola De Angelis, C.F.I.C. serving as co-consecrators, at St. Columbkille Cathedral.

Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz

He was appointed bishop for the Diocese of Fessei and auxiliar bishop for the Archdiocese of Oaxaca by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 1995, and consecrated on July 25, in a ceremony presided over by Archbishop Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera.

Old Roman Catholic Church in North America

The Most Reverend Francis P. Facione is the Titular Archbishop of Devon and the current Presiding Bishop of this Independent Catholic denomination.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail, and then he headed to Zürich and the United States.

Palacios del Arzobispo

Palacios del Arzobispo (Spanish for "Palaces of the Archbishop") is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca in western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov

On March 18, 1982 he became archbishop of Bamenda when his diocese was elevated to archdiocese by Pope John Paul II.

Pochayiv Lavra

This new St. Job of Pochaev Brotherhood moved from Czechoslovakia to Germany and eventually America, where it joined the Holy Trinity Monastery near Jordanville, New York, with now-Archbishop Vitaly becoming its abbot.

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

Amelia was christened at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace by John Moore, The Archbishop of Canterbury, on 17 September 1783.

Ramon, Isabela

Just recently, Bishop Sergio Utleg, DD, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Ilagan(now the Archbishop of Tuguegarao), offered the Parish of San Roque to remain under the "in perpetuum" care of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.

Robert Brindle

His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 12 March 1899, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Francesco Satolli, assisted by and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Edmund Stonor.

Robert Joseph Hermann

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Hermann represented the Archbishop in overseeing the parishes in five deaneries: Northeast St. Louis County, Northwest St. Louis County, Festus, St. Charles County and Washington.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres

The Archbishop Leonard Legaspi O.P., who was also the first Filipino Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, and the first Vicar of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vrhbosna

Josip Stadler, Servant of God - the first modern archbishop of Vrhbosna and the founder of the religious order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus.

Roman Catholic Church Group, Toodyay

On 3 December 1971 Lancelot Goody, Archbishop of Perth, wrote to the Sisters of Mercy in Toodyay advising of St Aloysius Convent School's imminent closure.

Sibour

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, (1792–1857) Catholic Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest

St. Jovan Vladimir's Church

Gregory of Durrës, the archbishop of Dyrrhachium from 1768 to 1772, wrote there the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, the oldest work of Albanian Orthodox literature.

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Temple Sandford

Sandford was named after Frederick Temple, Bishop of Exeter at the time of Sandford's birth and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

Thomas Lancaster

His consecration took place, at the hands of Archbishop Loftus of Dublin, Hugh Brady the Bishop of Meath, and Robert Daly the Bishop of Kildare, on 13 June 1568, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

Solari received his episcopal consecration on the following November 11 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Miguel de Andrea, serving as co-consecrators.

Vincenzo Di Mauro

Vincenzo Di Mauro (born 1 Dec 1951) is an Italian Catholic Bishop, Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vigevano, and prior to that was an official of the Roman Curia.

William Disney

In 1777 he became vicar of Pluckley in Kent, a living in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he died 28 March 1807.