Following the Habsburg conquest of Transylvania in 1687, Metropolitan Atanasie Anghel entered into full communion with the See of Rome by the Act of Union of 1698 which was formalized by a synod of bishops on September 4, 1700.

The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is headed by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the members are the Metropolitan Archbishops, Metropolitan Bishops, Diocesan Bishops, Patriarchal Exarchs, Missionary Bishops, Auxiliary Bishops, Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, Chorbishops and the Patriarchal Vicars for the Church of Alexandria.

Metropolitan Hilarion performs the laying on of hands ( Cheirotonia ), conferring the Holy Order of presbyter | presbyter ( priest ) upon an Orthodox deacon.

The Sovereign and his Consort were escorted to the Holy Doors ( Iconostasis ) of the Cathedral, and were there anointed by the Metropolitan.

The present Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, who was enthroned on 1 November 2010, at Parumala Church by the Holy Synod.

It usually meets twice per year, but in December 2006 a rare joint meeting between the Metropolitan Council and the Holy Synod of Bishops was held.

After his anointing, the new Tsar would be escorted through the Holy Doors to a small table set near the Holy Table, and there he would be given Holy Communion by the Metropolitan of Moscow in the same manner as priests.

In 1782 the Syriac Orthodox Holy Synod elected Metropolitan Michael Jarweh of Aleppo as Patriarch.

* G. Crow, This Holy Man Impressions of Metropolitan Anthony ( 2005 ).

Since then, these relics have been conserved by the canons of the Metropolitan Basilica Chapter, who are in charge of venerations, and guarded by the Knights of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotonou, and then at the Vatican in the service of the Holy See as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and then as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops.

On 30 June 1988 he was ordained a priest in the Church of Holy Trinity in Vienna by the hand of the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Italy and Hungary Hrizystom and spent almost the entire following decade as a Greek-Orthodox priest in Rome.

After becoming Metropolitan of the MOC in 1997, he was fully excommunicated by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Holy Synod is constituted by archpriests of MOC, led by Metropolitan Mihailo.

Various Orthodox theologians including St. Symeon the New Theologian, St Gregory Palamas, John Romanides, Vladimir Lossky, Metropolitan Hierotheos ( Vlachos ) of Nafpaktos, Thomas Hopko, Professor George D. Metallinos Nikolaos Loudovikos, Dumitru Stăniloae, Stanley S. Harakas and Archimandrite George, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Gregorios of Mount Athos hold that this criterion is at the very heart of many theological conflicts between Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Western Christianity, which is seen to culminate in the conflict over hesychasm.

At Metropolitan Irineu's proposal, the Holy Synod, in its July 30, 1945 session, after a canonical investigation and examination, approved Fr.

He was enthroned on December 28, 1947 at the Iaşi Metropolitan Cathedral, during a Divine Liturgy celebrated by an assembly of bishops, priests and deacons, in the presence of members of the Holy Synod, of representatives of the central and local governments ( two days before the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed ), and of numerous clergy and laymen.

After the proclamation of the Greek Republic in 1924, royal control of the Holy Synod naturally ceased, and with the elevation of the Metropolitan of Athens to an Archbishophric in 1932, the Archbishop began to be named in liturgies.

Angel Holding the Holy Nails, formerly one of a series of " Angels of the Passion ", oak, formerly painted, Northern French, late 13th century ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

St. Paul ’ s Metropolitan Cathedral is the venue of religious rites during the Holy Week.

Irenaios was elected patriarch on 13 August 2001 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and enthroned on 15 September 2001 as " Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee and Holy Zion " in the presence of senior church and secular dignitaries, including Archbishop Christodoulos of the Church of Greece and Metropolitan Nicholas of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church.

* Russia: Reforming Synod of the Metropolitan Makary: A calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) are introduced.

According to Turkish law, still in force today, he is subject to the authority of the Republic of Turkey ; however, Turkey allows the Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops to elect the Patriarch.

" However, in 2004 Patriarch Bartholomew, with the help of the Turkish government, succeeded, after eighty years, in altering the composition of the twelve-member Standing Synod of Metropolitan Bishops in Constantinople so that it can include six bishops from outside Turkey.

As a protest against the interference of the Anglican Church in the affairs of the Jacobite Church, the Metropolitan, Cheppad Mar Dionysius, convened a Synod at Mavelikara on 16 January 1836.

Subsequently, under his leadership, the Archdiocese of Chicago established official covenants with both the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and the Evangelical Lutheran Metropolitan Synod.

In August 1923, a power struggle among the factions of the Renovationist Synod resulted in the forced resignation of Metropolitan Antonin Granovsky.

The position was given to the then-President of Synod Vitaly Vvedensky, however since mid-1920s all power in the Renovationist Church had consolidated in the hands of its actual leader, Metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky.

Metropolitan Vitaly ( Vvedensky ) of Tula-President of the Synod 10 May 1930-1933 ; First Hierarch 5 May 1933-6 October 1941 (+ 1950 )

The pan-Orthodox Conference under the presidency of the Ecumenical Patriarch voted overwhelmingly to confirm the decision of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher and to strike Irenaios ' name from the diptychs, On 30 May, the Synod of Jerusalem chose Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra to serve as locum tenens pending the election of a replacement for Irenaios.

There is an ‘ Episcopal Synod ’, a Grand Assembly known as ‘ Marthoma Suryani Sabha Prathinidhi Mandalam ’ ( House of Representatives ), a council to aid the Metropolitan in administrative matters and a Vaideeka Selection Committee, to select candidates for the ministry of the Church.

In 1950, the Holy Synod adopted a new Statute which paved the way for the restoration of the Patriarchate and in 1953, it elected the Metropolitan of Plovdiv, Cyril, Bulgarian Patriarch.

There were also concerns at this time over Metropolitan Anthony's announcement that he wished to be succeeded as head of the diocese by Bishop Basil Osborne, an announcement which contravened both the statutes of the Moscow Patriarchate ( according to which bishops are appointed by the Holy Synod ) and those of the Diocese of Sourozh ( according to which the diocesan assembly determines episcopal appointment ).

In 1950, the Holy Synod adopted a new Statute which paved the way for the restoration of the Patriarchate and in 1953, it elected the Metropolitan of Plovdiv, Cyril, Bulgarian Patriarch.

It emerged the same year that despite Christodoulos ' claims that he had no knowledge of nor involvement with human rights violations by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974, because those seven years he was busy studying to become a priest, he had been present in the swearing-in ceremony of the new regime while he held the office of Arch-Secretary of the " Holy Synod ", the collective council of Metropolitan bishops of the Church of Greece.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

It brought the UERL lines under the same control, and took over supervision of buses from the Metropolitan Police.

The United States premiere of the 1908 Rimsky-Korsakov edition took place on 19 March 1913 at the Metropolitan Opera, and was based on Sergey Dyagilev's Paris production.

In 1915 the United States premiere took place at the Metropolitan Opera, but staged in Italian and conducted by Giorgio Polacco.

In 1989, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority took control over the Pier.

The Westminster Metropolitan Borough was itself the result of an administrative amalgamation which took place in 1900.

His stature took a sharp rise in 1931 when major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paid thousands of dollars for his works.

The Bakerloo line took over the Metropolitan line's service to Stanmore on 20 November 1939.

In 1926 the Metropolitan took over all inner circle workings except for 3 trains on Sundays.

The Jubilee line took over the slow Metropolitan line service between Finchley Road and Wembley Park.

He took part in the construction of the Metropolitan Railway ( London ).

After playing at the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company took the production to New York, where it played at the Metropolitan Opera House and then on tour of the US and Canada.

" He took on the enormous project as the sole financier, on a 27-year lease ( with the option for three 21-year renewals for a total of 87 years ) for the site from Columbia ; negotiating a line of credit with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and covering ongoing expenses through the sale of oil company stock.

Albani made her debut with New York's Metropolitan Opera on 20 November 1891 as Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, a performance which took place while the company was on tour in Chicago.

The original generating station for the GN & CR was closed when the Metropolitan Railway took over, and became the studio of Gainsborough Pictures.

Following the Local Government Act 1972, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council took control of surrounding towns, villages and adopted them as part of Barnsley.

On 20 November 1939, following the construction of an additional southbound platform and connecting tube tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road stations, the Bakerloo line took over the Metropolitan line's stopping services between Finchley Road and Wembley Park and its Stanmore branch.

The majority of the demonstrations took place on a long stretch of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, more commonly known by its acronym EDSA, in Metropolitan Manila from February 22 – 25, 1986 and involved over two million Filipino civilians as well as several political, military, and including religious groups led by Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of Manila.

In order to have a local body to coordinate local work to plan London, Parliament passed the Metropolis Management Act 1855 which created the Metropolitan Board of Works ( which also took over the responsibilities of the short-lived Metropolitan Buildings Office and Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, established in 1845 and 1848 respectively ).

The United States premiere with the Metropolitan Opera took place in Chicago on March 29, 1894, and then in the company's main house in New York City three weeks later.

The first performance of the work at the Metropolitan Opera took place on December 4, 2003, with James Levine conducting and stage direction from Andrei Şerban, and Marcello Giordani singing the role of Cellini.

However, the Metropolitan Opera had revived it in 1892, 1894 ( with Nellie Melba ), and 1895, but it took until 1932 when it was again revived ( in a German translation ) in Rostock, and it then reappeared under Tullio Serafin at the 1940 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

From 20 November 1939, the Bakerloo Line then took over the Metropolitan stopping services between Wembley Park and Finchley Road and the Stanmore branch.