[f. prec. + -RY.] a. The jurisdiction, or district under the ecclesiastical control, of an archdeacon. b. The rank or office of an archdeacon. c. The residence of an archdeacon.
1555. Bonner, in Foxe, A. & M., III. 151. The best learned in every deanary of their Archdeaconry.
1590. Swinburn, Testaments, 65. Emolumentes … belonging to anie Archdeaconrie.
1779. Swinburne, Trav. Spain, iv. 21 (T.). The archdeaconry, once the palace of the prætor or Roman governor.
1847. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., xi. 121. Isle of Anglesey … now an archdeaconry of the diocese of Bangor.
1872. R. Anderson, Missions Am. Board, III. xvii. 287. Elevated … to an archdeaconry … under the ‘Great Church’ at Constantinople.
