The summus episcopus of the evangelical religion becomes the protector of clericalism in Germany.
And what is more, has not the new President of the Evangelical Church just proclaimed William II as summus episcopus?
The German Church in Palestine certainly never expected to see the summus episcopus adopting an attitude of extreme humility in that country.
For the future William will only make his appearances accompanied by heralds clad in the costumes of the Middle Ages, bodyguards drawn from the nobility, surrounding the summus episcopus, pope and khalif of the Protestant Church.
Is he not the summus episcopus, who conducts the service in person?
From the Department of Education he takes the direction of public worship, which, in his capacity assummus episcopus, he proposes to control in person.
Against them thesummus episcopus is extremely wroth.
The speech of the summus episcopus cast all sermons into the shade by its lofty tone and spirit of tolerance.
Naturally enough, the Prussian pastors are extremely indignant at the cavalier way in which the summus episcopus treats the Holy Word.
The Latins translated the name of this "Hypsistos" by Jupiter summus exsuperantissimus[73] to indicate his preeminence over all divine beings.
According to the Episcopal System, the territorial lord as such claimed to rank and act as summus episcopus.
The Jesuits praised him as a second Josiah and Theodosius, called Munich a second Rome, and the pope invested him with the ecclesiastico-political privileges of a summus episcopus throughout his own dominions.
Reformed or Romish prince had to be regarded as summus episcopus of a Lutheran church.
The great chancellor, summus cancellarius or archi-cancellarius, was a dignitary who had indeed little real power.
The cancellarius, who formed part of the royal court and administration, was officially known as the sub-cancellarius in relation to the summus cancellarius, but as proto-cancellarius in regard to his subordinate cancellarii.
In all of them the king is recognized to be the summus episcopus or supreme authority in all ecclesiastical matters, but in Norway and Sweden his power is somewhat limited by that of parliament.
In each state the sovereign is still held to be the summus episcopus.
Summus deus: "the highest form of the deity" who was of course one in the Stoic system.
Thus while the emperor, as king of Prussia, is summus episcopus of the Prussian Evangelical Church, as emperor he enjoys no such ecclesiastical headship.
In the description, already quoted from the speech pro Sestio, of the scene in the theatre before his recall from exile, he speaks of this "summus artifex" as delivering his allusions to the exile with infinite force and passion.
Hence arose the misapprehension of some of the Greeks, who have said that Mithra was the summus deus of the Persians: he has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes.
Constituted thus “lord of the world,” he now becomes its “summus episcopus.
When Thomas Vaughan first came to London in 1636, Valentin Andreae was Summus Magister of the Fraternity, and amongst its leading members were Robert Fludd and Amos Komenski, or Comenius (pp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
