0 a high-ranking priest, especially in some Roman Catholic churches:
He was ordained priest by the head of the mission, being later raised to archpriest.
Rev. Michael Oleksa, archpriest at St. Alexis in Anchorage and the best-known Orthodox pastor in Alaska
Archpriest John Joseph Mowatt
Consider what even the two archpriests have said.
The title is roughly equivalent with the title of protopope or archpriest.
An archpriest is a priest with supervisory duties over a number of parishes.
The general idea is that the archpriest has the highest rank in his order; he comes immediately after the bishop.
If chantries were in religious communities, they were sometimes headed by a warden or archpriest.
