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primate
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PRIMATE, eccl. law.. An archbishop who has jurisdiction over one or several other metropolitans.



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Four primatial members of the standing committee are full members of the ACC.
O'Malley notes that, at the end of the third session, Pope Paul spoke of the church as "both monarchical and hierarchical" in a context in which "'both primatial and collegial' seemed called for," since the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, then being promulgated, avoided the word "monarchy.
This can be seen in the jewelled Primatial Cross of Canterbury, 1883, of silver and silver-gilt and also the jewelled ciborium, 1894, of silver parcel gilt from St Mary, Clapham, which epitomise the era.
 
 
 
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