Sentence examples for metropolitan bishop from inspiring English sources

Address a Metropolitan bishop on the envelope as "The Most Reverend, Metropolitan... (ex. The Most Reverend, Metropolitan Anthemos).

It is the seat of a metropolitan bishop and a divisional headquarters of the Greek army.

The city is the seat of a metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is also the seat of a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church.

The seat of a metropolitan bishop, Árta is a prosperous agricultural city surrounded by groves of orange, lemon, and citron trees.

The chief town and port, Mírina, on the west coast, is the seat of the metropolitan bishop of Lemnos and the island of Áyios Evstrátios to the south.

Like 11 of the 14 metropolitan bishops who make up the ruling synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Neofit was revealed to have a file documenting or implying cooperation with the powerful secret police under Communism.

In 380 the Arians were relieved of their churches in Constantinople, and in 381 the Nicaean faith was universally imposed by a council whose canons established the authority of the metropolitan bishops over their dioceses and gave the bishop of the capital a primacy similar to that of the bishop of Rome.

The other thematic generals who took part in the revolt were also dismissed from their posts, the metropolitan bishops of Sardis, Amorion and Nicomedia were punished for their support of the uprising by exile to the small island of Pantelleria off Sicily, while the soldiers of the Anatolian armies were left unpaid for a year.

It was supplemented by a letter from Jacob in which the noble calls the metropolitan "the bishop of the entire Russian land... of my ancestors".

Originally, a metropolitan was a bishop of the Christian Church who resided in the chief city, or metropolis, of a civil province of the Roman Empire and, for ecclesiastical purposes, administered a territorial area coextensive with a civil province.