polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of...
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Instead, the metropolitan bishop (the bishop in a large city) appointed priests to minister each congregation, acting as the bishop's delegate. Around...
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subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictional in their role. Suffragan bishops may be charged...
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Metropolis (religious jurisdiction) (redirect from Metropolitan archdiocese)
metropolis, metropolitanate or metropolitan (arch)diocese is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical...
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Ecclesiastical province (redirect from Metropolitan Archdiocese)
(or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman...
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Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church (redirect from List of Coptic bishops)
Church's metropolitan archbishops, metropolitan bishops, diocesan bishops, patriarchal exarchs, missionary bishops, auxiliary bishops, suffragan bishops, assistant...
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heads of churches sui juris (patriarchs and metropolitans) and diocesan bishops may not do so. Only a bishop or other ordinary may grant nihil obstats for...
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See of Sardis (redirect from Metropolitan Bishop of Sardis)
name. It was one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, held by metropolitan bishops since the middle to late 1st century, with jurisdiction over the...
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hold authority over other bishops (see below). A Latin Church Metropolitan is the bishop of the principal (the "metropolitan") see of an ecclesiastical...
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Primate of New Zealand (redirect from Anglican Metropolitan Bishop of New Zealand)
September 1858, Selwyn was made metropolitan bishop over the other dioceses and called Bishop of New Zealand and Metropolitan. By 1868, New Zealand had seven...
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needed] Geevarghese Dionysius of Vattasseril, who became the Malankara metropolitan bishop in 1908, played a significant role with the other clerical and lay...
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Archbishop of Vienna (redirect from Bishop of Vienna)
the metropolitan bishop of its ecclesiastical province which includes the dioceses of Eisenstadt, Linz and St. Pölten. From 1469 to 1513, bishops from...
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Ignatius Zakka I (section Metropolitan bishop)
author. He was an observer at Second Vatican Council before becoming metropolitan bishop of Mosul. At the time of his election as patriarch, Mor Severios...
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Daniil of Bulgaria (category Bishops of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church)
since June 2024. Prior to his election, he was the Metropolitan Bishop of Vidin (2018–2024) and bishop of Dragovitia (2008–2018). Atanas Trendafilov Nikolov...
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Archbishop of York (redirect from Bishop of York)
archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the northern regions of England...
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K. P. Yohannan (redirect from Moran Mor Athanasius Yohan Metropolitan)
organisation with a focus on India and Asia. He was also the founding Metropolitan Bishop of Believers Eastern Church (formerly Believers Church) with the...
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the catholicose of the East or the grand metropolitan of the East) is the patriarch, or leader and head bishop (sometimes referred to as Catholicos or...
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Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical "mother see" Metropolitan Division, a division in the National Hockey League Metropolitan Police...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles (section Bishop of California (Two Californias, Both Californias))
the United States. The Archbishop of Los Angeles also serves as metropolitan bishop of the suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Los...
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Canterbury's metropolitan bishop is the Archbishop of Canterbury who also oversees the Falkland Islands, an extraprovincial parish. Bishops of the Southern...
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Archbishop (redirect from Archbishop-bishop)
century, although the role, above ordinary bishops but below patriarchs, seems to be established for metropolitans by the 5th century. Episcopal sees are...
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countries under a metropolitan bishop: Poland under the Metropolitan of the Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw the United States under the Metropolitan of the Archeparchy...
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Anglican ministry (redirect from Anglican Bishop)
diocesan bishops has oversight of all of the other bishops of the province, and is known as a metropolitan bishop, or simply a metropolitan. Metropolitans are...
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Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon (redirect from Suffragan Bishop to the Metropolitan Bishop)
the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior, by a suffragan bishop to the Metropolitan since 2004, and became a "recognized territory [with] the status...
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of the Metropolitan bishops, archbishops, and bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia since 1920. Nicholas (Olhovsky), Metropolitan of Eastern...
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1927-2011, Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Chios, Psara, and Inousses Dionysios Mantalos, 1952-, current Metropolitan bishop of Corinth Dionisis Angelopoulos...
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Metropolitan Paphnutius or Pephnotious (Arabic: الأنبا بفنوتيوس,Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲫⲛⲟⲩⲧⲓⲟⲥ) is the first Metropolitan Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese...
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Metropolis of Corinth (redirect from Metropolitan bishop of Corinth)
Μητρόπολις Κορίνθου, Σικυώνος, Ζεμενού, Ταρσού και Πολυφέγγους) is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece in Corinthia, Greece. Since the Middle Ages...
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Metropolitan Pachomius or Pakhomious (Arabic: الانبا باخوميوس, Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁϧⲱⲙⲓⲟⲥ) is the serving Metropolitan bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese...
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Anthony of Sourozh (redirect from Metropolitan Antony)
He was a monk and bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was founder and for many years bishop - then archbishop, then metropolitan - of the Diocese...
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