Galenus and Hippokrates, manipulating medicines and cordials, were painted in the lower basilica at Anagni, Hermes Trismegistos was represented in mosaic in the Duomo of Siena, the labors of Hercules were carved in ivory in the cathedra of S.
The cathedra is mentioned by Optatus Milevitanus, Ennodius of Pavia, and by more recent authors, as having changed place many times, until Alexander VII.
But the same Cyprian says quite naively, even at the time when he exalted the Roman cathedra so highly (ep.
His behaviour in the controversy about heretical baptism proves that in cases of dispute he was resolved to elevate his theory of the sovereign authority of each bishop above his theory of the necessary connection with the cathedra Petri.
Moreover, he did not go the length of declaring that any special authority within the collective Church attached to the temporary occupant of the cathedra Petri.
St. Cyprian had his quarrel with the Roman See, but it appears he allows to it the title of the "Cathedra Petri," and even Firmilian is a witness that Rome claimed it.
Was the famous Syllabus Errorum, for example, issued ex cathedra or not?
Duffield culminated in a declaration which deserves to be cited as showing that a Presbyterian minister can "deal damnation round the land" ex cathedra in a fashion quite equal to that of popes and bishops.
Unde person of his successors, the quicumque in hac Cathedra Petro bishops of the holy Roman see, succedit, is secundum Christi which was founded by him, and ipsius institutionem primatum consecrated by his blood.
Then he sank into the cathedra so that in spite of his lofty stature he almost disappeared in it.
He says among other things: “Instruction and admonition are external aids, but he who controls the hearts has his cathedra in heaven.
Church and the immovable Cathedra Petri, with the Roman Bishop as Peter's successor.
Rome as the Cathedra Petri and the Roman Church as the head of the universal Church.
Had he been a liar with regard to Dante the Republic of Florence would scarcely have appointed him to the first Cathedra Dantesca; but they gave him the lectureship just because he was the one person who could fill it with honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cathedra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
