[f. as above + -ATE3.] An archbishop’s tenure of office; also = ARCHBISHOPRIC.
1792. Gentl. Mag., April, 332. Will shed the most refulgent splendour on the archiepiscopate of Dr. Moore.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), V. IX. vii. 371. Venice … had never become … the seat of an archiepiscopate.
