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Definition of Metropolitans
1. metropolitan [n] - See also: metropolitan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metropolitans
Literary usage of Metropolitans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The metropolitans imposed upon the opponents of the grand duke bans and ...
The relation of the metropolitans to the patriarch was changed by the fall of ..."
2. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"metropolitans, and to prevent as far as possible the appoint- mentof a ...
The Position of Metropolitans in General-—As representing the unity of the ..."
3. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1832)
"Among the metropolitans, those of Home, Antioch, and Alexandria stood preeminent,
in honor and influence. During the reign of Constantine. the Great, ..."
4. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog (1876)
"Metropolitans, Bishops, and Their Dioceses. ... Owing to their exalted rank, the
metropolitans still retained many of their political rights, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The greater metropolitans ruled each an ecclesiastical province and ... The number
of these metropolitans varied in the various patriarchates according to ..."
6. History of the Christian Church by James Craigie Robertson (1862)
"The party which relied on the authority of the decretals was bent on humbling
the class of metropolitans. There are circumstances which seem to indicate ..."
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