It was also endorsed by a large number of the eastern Metropolitan bishops.

As of 1989, two metropolitan bishops even sat in the Great National Assembly.

Sometimes this carries jurisdiction over metropolitan bishops, but usually it is purely honorific.

Furthermore, he consecrated his own nephews at the ages of twelve and fifteen as metropolitan bishops.

Rovérié was granted the right to wear the pallium, traditionally reserved for metropolitan bishops, on 15 July 1890.

The archbishops of these archdioceses are not metropolitan bishops and thus do not wear the pallium.

For most of the period covered by the lists of Michael the Syrian, both dioceses had metropolitan bishops.

What this was was much debated, particularly by the metropolitan bishops of Arles and Vienne.

It was a property of Greek Catholic metropolitan bishops of Lvov.

Thereafter separate metropolitan bishops for Mosul and for Erbil are recorded in a fairly complete series from 1210 to 1318.

In addition to the Patriarch, the Synod comprises 38 members, including 25 metropolitan bishops, 5 archbishops and 7 simple bishops.

The bishops, who were located in major urban centres as per pre-legalisation tradition, thus oversaw each diocese as Metropolitan bishops.

The term proedros was often used for a bishop, who was naturally the president of the local clergy, and in some rare cases for metropolitan bishops.

He received the pallium, a vestment worn by metropolitan bishops, from Cardinal Francis Spellman on May 12, 1953.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the title is purely honorific and carries no extra jurisdiction, though most archbishops are also metropolitan bishops, as above.

In 1936 the diocese again changed metropolitan bishops, becoming a suffragan of the newly erected Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

This was made possible through the ancient Canonical law of the Church of East, which decreed that only metropolitan bishops could confirm a patriarch.

The Antiochian tradition also uses the style 'metropolitan archbishop' to differentiate from metropolitan bishops in the Greek tradition.

Ecclesiastically, these cities retained their former allegiances to the metropolitan bishops of Syria Prima and Secunda.

He received the pallium, a vestment worn by metropolitan bishops, from Benedict XVI on June 29 of that year.

The Torenthi church is hierarchal in structure, with ranks including parish priests, abbots, itinerant bishops, metropolitan bishops, and archbishops.

"Acting in the place of the Roman Pontiff, he also confers the pallium upon metropolitan bishops or gives the pallium to their proxies."

To improve the finances he raised taxes on the metropolitan bishops and relieved the little parishes: this action was quite successful but made him unpopular among the bishops.

In the beginning, it seems the chorepiscopi exercised regular episcopal functions in their rural districts, but from the late third century they were subject to city or metropolitan bishops.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, metropolitan bishops are styled "The Right Reverend" provided that they are the primates of autocephalous churches.