Theodosius issued a Sacra calling for the metropolitan bishops to assemble in the city of Ephesus, which was a special seat for the veneration of Mary, where the theotokos formula was popular.

Because the overland trip from Antioch to Ephesus was long and arduous, John composed his delegation of his metropolitan bishops who were restricted to bring no more than two suffragans each.

He later became metropolitan archbishop of Ephesus and died in Constantinople in c. 1090.

Her contemporaries, like the metropolitan Bishop of Ephesus, Georgios Tornikes, regarded Anna as a person who had reached " the highest summit of wisdom, both secular and divine.

The more important centres ( e. g. Antioch for Syria, Ephesus for the Province of Asia, Alexandria for Egypt, Rome for Italy ), whence Christian missionaries issued to preach the Gospel, were regarded as the mother-churches ( hence the Greek term metropolitan ) of the newly-founded Christian communities.

In 431, the Acts of the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus list the bishops of Epirus, including metropolitan Bishop St. Donatos of Nikopolis ( c. 425-432 ).

There are several similar examples of a tholos in other metropolitan cities of antiquitiy, for example at Pergamon and Ephesus.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

In time, it became natural to group these into provinces and a metropolitan was appointed for each province.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

The population of the metropolitan area ( including Elche and satellite towns ) was 771, 061 estimates, ranking as the eighth-largest metropolitan area of Spain.

The official population of Alicante in 2011 was 334, 329 inhabitants and 771, 061 in the metropolitan area " Alicante-Elche ".

After the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, the church structure was patterned after the administrative divisions of the Roman Empire wherein a metropolitan or bishop of a metropolis came to be the ecclesiastical head of a civil capital of a province or a metropolis.

The acts of the process were sent either to the metropolitan or primate, who carefully examined the cause, and, after consultation with the suffragan bishops, declared whether the defunct was worthy of the name of ' martyr ' and public veneration.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

The metropolitan of Jerusalem was elevated to the status of " patriarch ", bringing the number of patriarchies to five.

“ Colonial Africa fell within that part of the international capitalist economy from which surplus was drawn to feed the metropolitan sector.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Services to Tasmania and the Northern Territory took longer to start, not until the mid 2000s when the digital satellite pay television service had picked up momentum and was beginning to be used for metropolitan installs and not just rural installs.

At the 2010 census, the population was 141, 527 ; the Dayton metropolitan area had 841, 502 residents, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the 61st largest in the United States.

Davenport has a declining crime rate and a low rate of unemployment, and was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes.

In 1959, the Spanish territory of the Gulf of Guinea was established with the same status as the provinces of metropolitan Spain.

A paradoxical effect of this autonomy was that Guineans could choose among several political parties while metropolitan Spaniards were under a single party regime.

It was the 12th ecumenical council and is sometimes called the " Great Council " or " General Council of Lateran " due to the presence of seventy-one patriarchs and metropolitan bishops, four hundred and twelve bishops, and nine hundred abbots and priors together with representatives of several monarchs.

But after being downsized to 8, 000 men and stripped of all heavy weaponry, the Foreign Legion was spared, packed up and re-headquartered in metropolitan France.

This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.

His list could easily be increased, for the Greek Orthodox see still exists ; it was raised in 1904 to the rank of a metropolis without suffragans, after the manner of most Greek metropolitan sees.

After the formation of the Slav principality of Dioclia ( modern Montenegro ), the metropolitan see of Bar was created in 1089, and dioceses in northern Albania ( Shkodër, Ulcinj ) became its suffragans.

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

Gregory intended for Augustine to become the metropolitan archbishop over all of southern Britain, including over the bishops already serving among the Britons.

Although most markets have digital channel assignments already in place, to date digital broadcasts have only launched in the largest metropolitan areas.

It was, de facto, elevated to an Archiepiscopal status by the local Alexandrine Council on the one hand and it was then regulated by canon law of the First Ecumenical Council stipulating that all the Egyptian episcopal and metropolitan provinces be subjected to this Metropolitan See of Alexandria, as was already the prevailing custom.

In 1965, the team applied to the American Football League to join that league, but were turned down ( as the New York metropolitan area already had both the Jets and NFL's Giants, both of which counted North Jersey as their market and would eventually move to New Jersey in later years ), and instead joined the upstart Continental Football League, where it played one season in 1965 before moving to Orlando, Florida, acquiring an existing franchise in the Southern Professional Football League that had been in place since 1962, and becoming the Orlando Panthers.

The store was far more established and notable outside Japan, such that by the time it opened its first store in the Tokyo metropolitan area, the company was already in a state of decline due to accumulated debts from over-expansion.

In 1973-1974, Simpsons-Sears opened its first stores in metropolitan areas already served by Simpson's ( although in suburban areas well away from the downtown Simpson's stores ), the first such being in Mississauga, Ontario.

* Transportation in metropolitan Detroit ( Details of a system that was already in public ownership )

This station took advantage of HSN's already extensive network of low-power transmitters located in many major metropolitan markets throughout the United States.

There also has been a de-facto preference by regulators to encourage the assignment of broadcast licenses to smaller cities which otherwise would have no local voice, instead of allowing all broadcast activity to be concentrated in large metropolitan areas already served by many existing broadcasters.

This formation of a " core of good-looking, affluent districts " close to the historical center isolated by a mountain range from the middle and lower class suburbs remember how Rio de Janeiro's spatial segregation is organizated, although lower class poorly urbanizated neighbourhoods in Vitória's highlands are not as famous, if one can say that favelas like what is found soon after Rio de Janeiro's affluent neighbourhoods close to the center even exists ( it is already present in Vitória metropolitan region, but probably not the city proper ).

The 6th was already the largest in the state, stretching from the Panhandle to the town of Spencer, in the far northeastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

The metropolitan club is one of the best in Honduras and Central America and has already accumulated several championships, being also a well-known competitor in international tournaments like the CONCACAF Champions League, where it has participated in many occasions but still has not been able to reach a final ; In 1986 it had its best finish getting the fifth place.

This principle had already been put into practice in two small English asylums -- William Tuke's Retreat near York, and the Lincoln Asylum — but it was due to Conolly's courage in sweeping away all mechanical restraint in a great metropolitan asylum and in the face of strong opposition, that non-restraint became accepted practice throughout the country.

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened ( with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened ).

As representative of the 6th district, he already had established name recognition in both the Baltimore and Washington, D. C., metropolitan areas, the more densely populated and liberal areas of the state.

The First Council of Nicaea in 325, in whose fourth canon the title " metropolitan " appears for the first time, sanctioned the existing grouping of sees by provinces of the Roman empire, but also recognized that three sees, Alexandria, Antioch and Rome, already had authority over wider areas.

In 1865 it adjudged Bishop Gray's letters patent, as metropolitan of Cape Town, to be powerless to enable him " to exercise any coercive jurisdiction, or hold any court or tribunal for that purpose ," since the Cape colony already possessed legislative institutions when they were issued ; and his deposition of Bishop Colenso was declared to be " null and void in law " ( re The Bishop of Natal ).

Dionysius counts Firmilian as one of " the more eminent bishops " in a letter to Pope Stephen I ( Eusebius, VII, v, 1 ), where his expression " Firmilian and all Cappadocia " implies that Caesarea was already a metropolitan see.

The already known parish with the eleventh century depended on the rich person and powerful metropolitan chapter on Lyon which shared the capacity on Chaleins with various seigneuriales families, of which the Palatin family with the thirteenth century.