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Archbishops do not necessarily have more power than bishops, but they are in charge of more prestigious dioceses. However, many archbishops are also the metropolitans of the ecclesiastical province in which their archdiocese is located. In Western churches (i.e. Roman Catholic or Anglican), this is almost always the case. However, in Roman Catholicism, archbishops who are not metropolitans are styled Archbishop ad personam, and do not receive the right to wear the pallium. In the Slavic Eastern churches (both 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 Slavic (Eastern) Orthodox metropolitans. The Oriental Orthodox generally follow the pattern of the Slavic Orthodox with respect to the archbishop/metropolitan distinction.

Notable archbishops, past and present, include:

• Isidore, Archbishop of Seville
• Albert, Archbishop of Mainz
• Gregory PalamasGregory Palamas ( 1296 1359) was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece, and later became Archbishop of Thessalonica. He was a preeminent theologian and a proponent of hesychasm; he is venerated as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was initially asked b, Archbishop of Thessalonica
• David HopeThe Most Reverend and Right Honourable David Michael Hope (born April 14, 1940) is the current Archbishop of York, in the Church of England, and has held that position since 1995. Before then he was the Bishop of Wakefield from 1985 and then Bishop of Lon, Archbishop of YorkThe Archbishop of York Primate of England, is the metropolitan of the Province of York, and the junior of the two archbishops of the Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury. His cathedral is York Minster in central York and his official resi
• WilliamWilliam (Wilhelm), the son of emperor Otto I the Great and a Slav mother, acceded as archbishop of Mainz in 954/5 and died in 968. The archbishops of Mainz were the metropolitan bishops for the newly established diocese of Prague in Bohemia. The territory, Archbishop of Mainz
• Joseph Cardinal RatzingerJoseph Cardinal Ratzinger (b. April 16, 1927) is a Cardinal Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1981 Cardinal Ratzinger was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Pope John Paul II, made a Cardinal Bishop of the see of, Archbishop of MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se and FreisingFreising ( List of European cities with alternative names) is a city in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the district Freising. Geographical location 48° 24' North, 11° 44' East. Population 40,000. The city is located north of Munich at the Isar river, near t
• Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Boston
• Jerome George Hanus, OSB, Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
• John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore
• Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town
• Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of York