1. "Autocephalous" metropolitans had no suffragan bishops, and depended directly on the patriarch

2. The month before, the Metropolitans had fought a pitched battle with their rivals for control of City Hall.

3. The children continued to frolic in the street, running up to the Metropolitans, taunting them, and then running away.

4. No other bishops, even non-metropolitan archbishops or retired metropolitans, are allowed to wear the pallium unless they have special permission.

5. There are Cathedral churches of simple diocesan bishops, of archbishops or metropolitans, of primates, patriarchs, and, in the Roman Catholic Church, of the pope.

6. After the taking of Constantinople in 1452, the Russian metropolitans were always chosen and consecrated in Russia, appeals ceased, and Moscow became de facto Autocephalous (Joyce, ubi sup

7. According to the medieval canon law, based on the decretals, and Codified in the 13th century in the Corpus juris canonici, by which the earlier powers of metropolitans had been greatly curtailed, the powers of the archbishop consisted in the right …