The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The abbey is a species of " exempt religious " in that it is, for the most part, answerable to the Pope, or to the abbot primate, rather than to the local bishop.

* The abbot of Sant ' Anselmo di Aventino, in Rome, is styled the " abbot primate ," and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St. Benedict ( O. S. B.

# As Primate of All England, he is the senior primate and chief religious figure of the Church of England ( the British sovereign is the Supreme governor of the church ).

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

At the beginning of the 3rd century, Hippolytus of Rome describes another feature of the ministry of a bishop, which is that of the " Spiritum primatus sacerdotii habere potestatem dimittere peccata ": the primate of sacrificial priesthood and the power to forgive sins.

; Primate: A primate is usually the bishop of the oldest church of a nation.

The primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church is chosen from among the diocesan bishops, and, while retaining diocesan responsibility, is called Primus.

; Presiding Bishop or President Bishop: These titles are often used for the head of a national Anglican church, but the title is not usually associated with a particular episcopal see like the title of a primate.

The primate version of bipedalism is unusual because the back is close to upright ( completely upright in humans ).

The breast is the upper ventral region of the torso of a primate, in left and right sides, which in a female contains the mammary gland that secretes milk used to feed infants.

In considering the human animal, zoologists proposed that the human female is the only primate that possesses permanent, full-form breasts when not pregnant.

In the diagram, the simian clade is nested within the primate clade.

Functionally, Anglican episcopal authority is expressed synodically, although individual provinces may accord their primate with more or less authority to act independently.

The highest-ranking bishop of the communion is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also primate of one of the autocephalous churches.

The “ ectoparasite ” explanation of modern human nakedness is based on the principle that a hairless primate would harbor fewer parasites.

Language is thought to have originated when early hominins first started cooperating, gradually changing their primate communication systems as they acquired the ability to form a theory of other minds and shared intentionality.

Mycoplasma genitalium is a small parasitic bacterium that lives on the ciliated epithelial cells of the primate genital and respiratory tracts.

* 2005 – Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada ( b. 1909 )

The church is locally headed by the autonomous Catholicos and its present primate is Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan.

The most recent All-American Council ( 15th ) was held in November 2008, at which time the current primate of the OCA, now Metropolitan Jonah ( Paffhausen ), was elected.

* Metropolitan Theodosius ( Lazor ), former primate of the Orthodox Church in America ( 1933 – )

According to an interview with Metropolitan Jonah ( Paffhausen ), primate of the Orthodox Church in America, the Cathedral, while only half full, holds about 2, 500 faithful.

Its current primate is Metropolitan Philip ( Saliba ), who has six other diocesan bishops assisting him in caring for the nine dioceses of the growing Archdiocese, which is the third largest Orthodox Christian " jurisdiction " in North America, with 74, 600 adherents in the United States, 27, 300 of which are regular church attendees.

The primate of the church carries the title of Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia (;, Mitropolit Rizhskiy i vseya Latvii ).

In November 1922, Russian Orthodox in North America held a synod and elected Metropolitan Platon as the primate of an autonomous Russian exarchate in the Americas.

Prior to his election as primate of the UOCC in 2010 Metropolitan Yurij served as Archbishop of Toronto and the Eastern Eparchy.

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.

Neuropsychological studies of a patient who could not see motion, seeing the world in a series of static " frames " instead, suggested that MT in the primate is homologous to V5 in the human.

Upon learning of Bolesław's act Martin I, Archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland, who was a strong supporter of Zbigniew, excommunicated Bolesław III Wrymouth for committing the crime against his half-brother.

After the death of Theobald in 1161, John continued as secretary to Thomas Becket, and took an active part in the long disputes between that primate and his sovereign, Henry II, who looked upon John as a papal agent.

Imanishi was an animal ecologist who began studying wild horses before focusing more on primate ecology.

Critics of primate linguistic studies include Thomas Sebeok, American semiotician and investigator of nonhuman communication systems, who wrote:

Even some authors who may otherwise appear to be critical of the concept of Paleolithic diet have argued that high energy density of modern diets, as compared to ancestral / primate diets, contributes to the rate of diseases of affluence in the industrial world.

Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark was one of the primatologists who developed the idea that there were " trends " in primate evolution and that the living members of the order could be arranged in a series, leading through " monkeys " and " apes " to humans.

In May the same year Rosebraugh was one of four people who blockaded the entrance to the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in protest of primate experimentation.

In the Anglican Communion, a metropolitan is generally the head of an ecclesiastical province ( or cluster of dioceses ) and ranks immediately under the primate of the national church ( who is often also a metropolitan ).

During that time it was the Polish primate who served as an interrex ( ruler between kings ).

) Also to be found in Evolution are ponderous Romans, sapient dinosaurs, the last of the wild Neanderthals, a primate who witnesses the extinction of the dinosaurs, symbiotic primate-tree relationships, mole people, and primates who live on a Mars-like Earth.

These member churches are known as " provinces of the Anglican Communion ," and are headed by a primate, who may also be referred to as a primus ( for example, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church ), presiding bishop, or moderator.

One of the unusual features of the kinship structure of the white-headed capuchin, relative to other primate species, is the high degree of relatedness within groups that results from the long tenures of alpha males who sire most of the offspring.

Apart from this, there are only two other people who can touch it, the nádorispán ( the highest secular title ), who puts it onto a pillow during coronation, and the Archbishop of Esztergom ( primate of Hungary, the highest ecclesiastical title ), who places it on the head of the king.

Those who see language as a socially learned tool of communication, such as Michael Tomasello, see it developing from the cognitively controlled aspects of primate communication, these being mostly gestural as opposed to vocal.

who was an extremely bright and jealous primate.

Marmosets may leave their natal groups when they become adults, in contrast to other primate species who leave at adolescence.

* Woolly monkeys-There are 19 of these rare monkeys at Monkey World, including several babies that have been hand-reared by primate care staff and others who are being cared for by their mothers.