Primate of All Ireland

Primate of All Ireland
the official title of each of the two Archbishops of Armagh in Northern Ireland. One is the Roman Catholic Archbishop and the other is the Anglican ( Church of England) Archbishop, and each is head of their Church in the whole of Ireland.

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