The next age made archbishops and metropolitans and patriarchs.
The Bishop of Rome would soon have been reduced to the condition of other metropolitans had his dignity rested on the greatness of his capital.
Here in olden times the rulers of the principalities in vassalage to Moscow embraced the cross and swore fealty, and here the metropolitans were appointed to their office.
He sent at once two Metropolitans to Rome, to urge the Pope to accept the Trullan canons.
There had been a compelling appeal to the imagination in the thought of this band of Metropolitansfrom city streets, stoically holding their ground when surrounded by German veterans in a forest in France.
The metropolitans were given the task of taking not a town, but a forest, with which their name will be as long connected as with our largest city.
The Metropolitans and the other Bishops may give a hundred gold solidi for their enthronement," &c.
And now Pope Leo was already requiring the Metropolitans to consecrate no Bishop without first consulting the Bishop of Thessalonica as his vicar.
Thus Anastasius of Thessalonica presided over the ten Metropolitans of Illyricum in Pope Leo's name.
It was the Metropolitans and Bishops of the neighbourhood who assembled with those of the Province where the flame of a great dissension had been kindled.
So long as the election and consecration of Bishops and Metropolitans were thus free and canonical, the greatness of the central See could never depress and extinguish the essential equality of the Episcopate.
In the sixth and seventh centuries the Church of the East could count its twenty-five metropolitans or archbishops; and the number and remoteness of their sees, stretching from Jerusalem to China, testifies to her missionary zeal.
In the Western Church the title was hardly known before the 7th century, and did not become common until the Carolingian emperors revived the right of the metropolitans to summon provincial synods.
The metropolitans now commonly assumed the title of archbishop to mark their pre-eminence over the other bishops; at the same time the obligation imposed upon them, mainly at the instance of St Boniface, to receive the pallium (q.
Besides archbishops who are metropolitans there are in the Roman Catholic Church others who have no metropolitan jurisdiction.
Nor are the terms interchangeable now; for not all metropolitans are archbishops,[1] nor all archbishops metropolitans.
The Orthodox Church hasmetropolitans at Prizren, Durazzo, Berat, Iannina and Kortcha; the Bulgarian exarchate maintains a bishop at Dibra.
If patriarchs, primates, and metropolitans have exercised certain prerogatives greater than those enjoyed by other bishops, will Janus tell us that this is owing to divine origin?
The immediate object," says Janus, "of the compiler of this forgery was to protect bishops against their metropolitans and other authorities, so as to secure absolute impunity.
Metropolitans usually now have a metropolitan tribunal distinct from their diocesan court (ib.
The metropolitans had peculiars within the dioceses of their comprovincials wherever they had residences or manors, and some whose origin is uncertain, e.
The only appellate jurisdiction from the metropolitans is the Roman See.
The story of the administrative development of the Church in the 5th century is mainly the story of the final emergence and constitution of the great "patriarchates," as authorities superior to metropolitans and provincial synods.
After the taking of Constantinople in 1452, the Russian metropolitans were always chosen and consecrated in Russia, appeals ceased, and Moscow became de facto autocephalous (Joyce, ubi sup.
Several attempts were made by metropolitans and their officials to take causes arising in the dioceses of their comprovincials in the first instance and not by way of appeal.
From 1787 onwards, colonial bishops and metropolitans were appointed by letters patent which purported to give them jurisdiction for disciplinary purposes.
Here these things are not forgotten and removed from men's reach but are available to metropolitans who go to the trouble to seek them out, as many do.
And just as the city bishops had a pre-eminence over the country bishops, so also the bishops of the chief cities of provinces soon came as metropolitans to have a pre-eminence over those of other cities.
As representing the unity of the national churches the interests of the metropolitans were bound up with those of the ruling princes.
From the 6th century the Popes of Rome began by sending them the pallium to confer confirmation of rank upon the newly-elected metropolitans of the West, who were called in these parts Archiepiscopi, Archbishops.
But Nicholas annulled the decisions of the Council, excommunicated his legates and deposed the two Lothringian metropolitans who had vainly trusted to the omnipotence of Lothringian gold in Rome.
This coalition of the metropolitans and the civil power, however, threatened the subordinate clergy with abject servitude, and drove them to champion the interests of the pope.
Among the =French= prelates after the restoration of the order of metropolitansby Boniface the first place was held by the occupant of the see of Rheims.
Lothringian metropolitans Günther of Cologne and Thietgaut of Treves, and expressed the wish that she should atone for her sins in a cloister.
But the author of the twelve anathemas foresaw and dreaded the opposition of John of Antioch, who, with a small, but respectable, train of metropolitans and divines, was advancing by slow journeys from the distant capital of the East.
The Greek Orthodox community has four metropolitans dependent on the patriarchate.
The laity take part in the election of metropolitans and parish priests, only the "black clergy," or monks, being eligible for the episcopate.
The patriarch ordains the metropolitans and episcopas and these in turn ordain the lower clergy.
In olden times the presence of twelve metropolitans was required at the ordination of a patriarch, but to-day they require only four metropolitans and a few episcopas.
Some have ventured to suppose that Michael was the name of the bishop of the times of Oskold; but Nestor says nothing about him, and this much only is certain, that he stands the first in the list of the metropolitans of Russia.
Since then metropolitans have been chosen and provinces formed by regular synodical action, a process greatly encouraged by the resolutions of the Lambeth conferences on the subject.
Patteson for Melanesia, by the metropolitans of Cape Town and New Zealand respectively.
Sidenote: The Emperor leadeth the Metropolitans horse in procession.
The Metropolitans unanimously decided to send a letter of Protest to the Prime Minister, Filov, and to the Minister of the Interior and of Religions.
He informed all theMetropolitans of the danger that was threatening Bulgarian Jewry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metropolitans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
