Bible Encyclopedias
Archbishops Visitation

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

1. A visitation by an archbishop of any particular place, church, religious house, or college within his own diocese and jurisdiction of which he is the ecclesiastical ordinary.

2. A visitation in the diocese of one of his suffragans to reform, amend, correct, or reverse a judgment or determination of the said suffragan in any ecclesiastical question.

3. The visitation of any college out of his own diocese, of which he is the legal and customary visitor and the acknowledged ordinary, for a similar purpose.

Bibliography Information
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Archbishops Visitation'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/archbishops-visitation.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.