Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "David, St" to "Demidov"

part ii. c. 7) says of the archipresbyters that "the memory of them is

preserved still in cathedral churches, in the chapters there, where the dean was nothing else but the archipresbyter; and both dean and prebendaries were to be assistant to the bishop in the regulating the church affairs belonging to the city, while the churches were contained therein." Bingham, however, fol...