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Western Christianity )]] In Western Christianity, an archbishop is entitled to a few extra privileges that a simple bishop does not receive. First, an archbishop's coat of arms looks different. Archbishops are allowed ten tassles a side on their Coat Of Arms , while a bishop only receives six. In addition, an archbishop can also place an archiepiscopal cross (two bars instead of one) behind their shield. This cross used to be carried immediately before archbishops in liturgical processions but is now not always done so. Also in liturgical protocol, archbishops precede simple bishops. Otherwise, archbishops dress and are styled the same as a normal bishop. Exceptions to style occur in the Anglican Communion and in countries where the Anglican Communion is prevalent. In those places, an archbishop is styled ''The Most Reverend'' while a simple bishop is styled ''The Right Reverend''. Most of the following applies equally to the Latin Rite Roman Catholic Church and the churches of the Anglican Communion , though in the latter, the only archbishops are the provincial metropolitans and, in some cases, the church Primate s. Archbishops of archdioceses Most archbishops are called so because they are in charge of an archdiocese, a diocese of particular importance. Most of the time, this importance is due to the archdiocese being the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province in which the diocese is located. These metropolitan archbishops, in addition to the usual ceremonial privileges of archbishops, hold the responsibilities of a Metropolitan Bishop over the Suffragan Bishop s of the province and are thus the only archbishops who wear the Pallium by right. Sometimes, a diocese is an archdiocese because of its history or size and not because of its jurisdictional importance. Their archbishops, while retaining the ceremonial privileges of archbishops, are really normal residential bishops and usually are suffragan to some metropolitan bishop. Most of these non-metropolitan archdioceses are located in Europe, and a few examples are the Archdiocese of Strasbourg , which is not in any Ecclesiastical Province , and the Archdiocese of Avignon , whose archbishop is a Suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Marseille {Link without Title} . Some Titular See s are/were archiepiscopal, so their incumbents are also archbishops. These Titular Archbishop s retain the privileges of archbishops but have the jurisdiction of neither a metropolitan nor a residential bishop. Other archbishops A residential archbishop who resigns his see and does not take up another one retains the title ''Archbishop Emeritus'' of the last see he occupied before the resignation. This occurs when an archbishop retires or is transferred to some other non-diocesan office, such as the Roman Curia . In the past the Pope would normally bestow a Titular See on every retired bishop and every bishop who transferred to the Curia, so this recent Canonical innovation was instituted to conserve titular sees for active auxiliary bishops and members of the Roman Curia who have not had a diocesan appointment yet. If archdiocese ''X'' has a Coadjutor Bishop , his official title is ''Coadjutor Archbishop of X''. However, until he succeeds to the archiepiscopal see, the coadjutor archbishop ranks with auxiliary bishops and not with normal archbishops. Finally some archbishops hold their privileges ''ad personam''. This means that the archiepiscopal dignity is conferred on them alone and not their diocese. The primates of the Anglican Communion are this kind of archbishop, since they only hold archiepiscopal rights for the duration of their presidency. In the Latin-rite Roman Catholic Church, the Pope grants ''ad personam'' archiepiscopal privileges, which usually endure perpetually. Eastern Christianity In the Eastern churches (Catholic and Orthodox) archbishops and metropolitans are distinct, although a metropolitan may be referred to as ''metropolitan archbishop''. In the Greek Orthodox Church , archbishops outrank metropolitans, and have the same rights as Eastern Orthodox metropolitans. The Oriental Orthodox generally follow the pattern of the Slavic Orthodox with respect to the archbishop/metropolitan distinction. See also |