Diocese headed by an archbishop and having suffragan dioceses under its jurisdiction.
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Examples for "metropolis"
Examples for "metropolis"
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Five weeks in the great metropolis had worked wonders in the boy.
2
Today, Wenling is a typical medium-sized metropolis in Zhejiang province, southern China.
3
Then came Richmond; the metropolis of the world, to the young voyager.
4
It gave him a new picture of the metropolis, he told us.
5
In the metropolis, an extraordinary assembly of the national union took place.
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The church of Seville has been a metropolitan see ever since the third century.
2
He was afterwards raised, through the usual course of episcopal preferment, to the metropolitan see of Seville.
3
Convicted of the crime, he who had resigned his metropolitan see was deprived of the office of patriarch.
4
By the elevation of Talavera to the metropolitan see of Granada, the office of queen's confessor became vacant.
5
The ecclesiastical organisation of the country was then consolidated; Gnesen was made the metropolitan see, and Polish and Pomeranian dioceses were placed under it.
6
His grandfather filled the Metropolitan see of Dublin previous to Archbishop Whately.
7
And more was added each year, flooding in from Vatican ambassadors, metropolitan sees, and individual parishes.
8
His strong championship of the independence of the Scottish church involved him in struggles with both the English metropolitan sees.
9
Show in how many ways you can deny the following assertions: All cathedral towns are all cities; Canterbury is the Metropolitan see.
10
The names of twenty-five metropolitan sees are on record, embracing of course a far greater number of bishoprics, and still more numerous congregations.
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In case of a metropolitan See, the archbishop-elect should be consecrated by another metropolitan and two bishops or by four bishops appointed by the crown.