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Archaic tablets from Uruk
The archaic tablets from Uruk, also called the Uruk IV and III tablets, are about 5,000 proto-cuneiform clay tablets recording grain and livestock, dating to about 3350–3000 BC.
Archana Gupta
Archana Gupta, born 1968, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and radiologist who became president of the party's Haryana unit in May 2026, its second woman leader.
Archangel
Archangel (Greek archangelos, chief angel): a high-ranking angel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic angelology. Michael and Gabriel are the chief named figures; Michael appears five times in scripture and headed a major late-antique cult with shrines at Monte Gargano and Chonae.
Archbishop
An archbishop is a bishop who also holds jurisdiction over the other bishops of an ecclesiastical province, a title recognized since the Council of Nicaea in 325.
Archbishop Jonathan Blake
Jonathan Clive Blake, born 1956, is a British Independent Catholic bishop consecrated in 2000 who co-founded the Open Episcopal Church, known for its open communion altar and ordination of women.
Archbishop Molloy High School
Archbishop Molloy High School, also called Molloy or St. Ann's Academy (original name), is a Catholic Marist co-ed college preparatory high school in Briarwood, Queens, New York, founded 1892, moved 1957, about 1,509 students, TACHS code 012.
Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior archbishop of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion; Sarah Mullally holds the office since 2026.
Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland
The Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland is the title of the primate of the Orthodox Church of Finland, an autonomous church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Archbishop of Melanesia
The Archbishop of Melanesia is the chief bishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia, covering Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; Leonard Dawea has held the office since 2019.
Archbishop of Turku
The Archbishop of Turku, formally Archbishop of Turku and Finland, is the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, an office created in 1817.
Archbishop of Uppsala
The Archbishop of Uppsala is the primate and senior bishop of the Church of Sweden, an office dating to 1164 whose 71st holder is Martin Modéus, elected in 2022.
Archbishop of York
The Archbishop of York is the senior bishop of the Church of England's northern province, styled Primate of England and second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Archbishop's Chapel, Ravenna
Archbishop's Chapel (Archiepiscopal Chapel, Cappella Arcivescovile di Sant'Andrea), Ravenna: small early Christian oratory built for Bishop Peter II, 494–519, under Theodoric; only orthodox monument of his reign, with Christ-as-Warrior vestibule mosaic and lily vault, UNESCO-listed since 1996.
Archbishopric of Novgorod
The Archbishopric of Novgorod (Новгородское епископство) was the Orthodox diocese of Novgorod, founded in the late 10th century under Prince Vladimir; its archbishop, elected locally, helped rule the Novgorod Republic.
Archbishopric of Ohrid
The Archbishopric of Ohrid (Охридска архиепископия) was an autocephalous Orthodox church seated at Ohrid, created by Emperor Basil II in 1019 from the Bulgarian patriarchate and abolished by Ottoman decree in 1767.
Archbishopric of Riga
The Archbishopric of Riga (Latvian: Rīgas arhibīskapija, 1255–1562) was the largest ecclesiastical state of medieval Livonia, a church-state under the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor centered on Riga and ended by the Livonian War.
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clerical office in the Anglican Communion, historically also Roman Catholic, in which a bishop delegates administrative and quasi-judicial authority over an archdeaconry.
Archdiocese of Chicago
The Archdiocese of Chicago is the metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church covering Cook and Lake counties in Illinois. It ministered to 2.2 million Catholics in 2021.
Archdiocese of Esztergom
The Archdiocese of Esztergom is the senior Roman Catholic archdiocese of Hungary, founded by King Stephen I in 1001, with the Esztergom Basilica as its cathedral.
Archdiocese of Lima
The Archdiocese of Lima (Arquidiócesis de Lima) is the metropolitan see of the Roman Catholic Church in Peru, erected by Pope Paul III in 1541 and raised to an archdiocese in 1546.
Archdiocese of Mexico
The Archdiocese of Mexico, or Arquidiócesis de México, is the Roman Catholic metropolitan see in Mexico City, made a diocese in 1530 and an archdiocese in 1546.
Archdiocese of Prague
The Archdiocese of Prague (Pražská arcidiecéze) is the Roman Catholic archdiocese seated at Prague in the Czech Republic, founded as a bishopric in 973 and raised to an archbishopric by Pope Clement VI in 1344.
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (Elisabeth Marie von Habsburg, 1883–1963), daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf, joined Austria's Social Democratic Party in 1925 as the "Red Archduchess" and married Leopold Petznek.
Archduchess Gisela of Austria
Archduchess Gisela of Austria (Gisela Louise Marie, 1856–1932), second daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth; married 1873 to Prince Leopold of Bavaria, mother of four, later patron figure for Bruckner in Munich.
Archduchess Louise of Austria
Archduchess Louise of Austria (Luise von Toscana), Habsburg-Tuscany archduchess and Crown Princess of Saxony; fled her marriage with lover André Giron, divorced and stripped of titles in 1903, expelled by Franz Joseph from the House registers.
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria
Archduchess Marie Valerie (Mária Valéria), 1868-1924, youngest daughter of Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth; the 'Hungarian child', wife of Franz Salvator, mother of ten, philanthropist of Wallsee.
Archduchess Sophie of Austria
Archduchess Sophie of Austria (Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine of Bavaria, 1805-1872), wife of Archduke Franz Karl and mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I, secured his 1848 accession and dominated the Vienna court as the 'secret Empress', clashing with Empress Elisabeth over the upbringing of her grandchildren.
Archduchy of Austria
Archduchy of Austria: Habsburg Danube state of the Holy Roman Empire, also Erzherzogtum Österreich. Duchy from the 1156 Privilegium minus; archducal title from Rudolf IV's forged Privilegium maius, recognized 1453; ended as imperial state in 1806.
Archduke
Archduke (Erzherzog, Latin archidux): Habsburg dynastic title of Austria, created through Rudolf IV's forged Privilegium maius of 1358/59, legally confirmed by Frederick III in 1453, abolished for Austrian citizens by the 1919 Adelsaufhebungsgesetz.
Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007)
Carl Ludwig Habsburg-Lothringen (1918–2007), Austrian archduke, fifth child of Emperor Karl I and Zita; exiled as a child, US Army officer at Normandy 1944, later a Genstar/Société Générale executive in Brussels.