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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 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 because the archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province in which the see 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. If the archdiocese is particularly significant, the archbishop may become a Cardinal . 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. )]] CATHOLIC CHURCH ::''Main article: Bishop (Catholic Church) '' In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church , an archbishop is roughly equivalent to a Metropolitan in the Eastern Catholic Churches . That is, an archbishop is head of an Ecclesiastical Province comprised of several dioceses. As head of an archdiocese he is responsible for various duties to his province according to Canon Law . 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 is treated as an important bishop and diocesan official and is considered an auxiliary bishop with the privilege of succession, and not as a regular archbishop. 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
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