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Major Archbishop
In the Catholic Church, major archbishop is a title for an Eastern Rite hierarch to whose archiepiscopal see is granted the same jurisdiction in his autonomous (sui juris) particular Church that an Eastern-rite patriarch has in his. 1990 Code of Canons for the Oriental Churches, Canon 151
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