Noun:

தலைமைக் குருவின் அடுத்த பெரிய அதிகாரி,

archdeacons's Usage Examples:

The council of Trent took away the jurisdiction of archdeacons in marriage questions.

The archdeacons are ex officio members of the convocations of their respective provinces.

It is specifically used as a title of address given to archdeacons in the Anglican Church.

On the 1st of July 1416 Chicheley directed a halfyearly inquisition by archdeacons to hunt out heretics.

It was partly in order to counterpoise the power of archdeacons that bishops created officials (Fournier, p.

"Laud's infatuated policy could go no further, and the etcetera oath, according to which whole classes of men were to be forced to swear perpetual allegiance to the "government of this church by archbishops, bishops, deans and archdeacons, 'c.

In the Armenian Church priests and archdeacons, as well as the bishops, wear a mitre.

Since 1836 there have been at least two archdeaconries in each diocese, and in some dioceses there are four archdeacons.

The extent of jurisdiction of archdeacons depended much upon local customs.

In the East, in the 5th century, the archdeacons were already charged with the proof of the qualifications of candidates for ordination; they attended the bishops at ecclesiastical synods, and sometimes acted as their representatives; they shared in the administration of sees during a vacancy.

Synonyms:

man of the cloth, clergyman, reverend,

Antonyms:

temporalty, profane, laity, layman,