(1) They would say that being an archpriest of a major basilica is an important job, you need a senior churchman to do it.(2) In 1755 Fagnano was appointed as archpriest , a very high rank to achieve.(3) ‘I know your mission here, of course,’ the archpriest told him, ‘and I have information for you.’(4) The words slid into my mind like the drifting feather of an angel, and I remembered what the archpriest had said just before I'd left.(5) In a given year, in 1824, for example, there were 34,095 priests and archpriests , 15,081 deacons, and 59,740 sacristans in Russia.