In 1059, the right of electing the pope was reserved to the principal clergy of Rome and the bishops of the seven suburbicarian sees.

Though these sees are now seven ( Ostia and Velletri having been separated in 1914 ), there are only six cardinal bishops, since the Dean always adds the title of Ostia to his original suburbicarian diocese.

In 1059, the right of electing the pope was reserved to the bishops of the seven suburbicarian sees, the priests in charge of the titular churches and the clergy in charge of the deaconries.

They belong to the order of cardinal bishops and, in the order of precedence, come before the cardinal priests and immediately after the cardinals who hold the titles of the seven suburbicarian sees.

Zigliara was first numbered among the cardinal-deacons, then he became a cardinal-priest, and in 1893 he was appointed Bishop of Frascati, one of the seven suburbicarian sees ; but, owing to the sickness which ended in his death in Rome on May 11, 1893, he never received episcopal consecration.

The acquisition in 1514 of the very influential Prince-Archbishopric-Electorate of Mainz for Albert was a coup that provided the Hohenzollerns with control over two of the seven electoral votes in imperial elections and many suffragan dioceses to levy dues.

It consists of 85 representatives, of whom seven or eight are sent from each of the dioceses.

The Scottish Episcopal Church () is a Christian church in Scotland, consisting of seven dioceses.

The church is composed of seven dioceses, each with its own bishop:

Over time, seven of these titles relating to some of the larger dioceses became attached to specific properties and usable as titles by the owner.

In Australia there are seven archdioceses and 32 dioceses, with an estimated 3, 000 priests and 9, 000 men and women in religious institutes.

On the eve of the Balkan Wars, in Macedonia and the Adrianople Vilayet, the Bulgarian Exarchate had seven dioceses with prelates and eight more with acting chairmen in charge and 38 vicariates ; 1, 218 parishes and 1, 212 parish priests ; 64 monasteries and 202 chapels ; as well as of 1, 373 schools with 2, 266 teachers and 78, 854 pupils.

By 1868, New Zealand had seven dioceses, and Selwyn's Diocese of New Zealand had been renamed as the Diocese of Auckland ( the Diocese of Waikato was still then part of the Diocese of Auckland, and the Diocese of Melanesia was still part of the province ).

On the eve of the Balkan Wars in 1912, in the Ottoman Macedonian vilayets and the Adrianople Vilayet alone, the Bulgarian Exarchate had seven dioceses with prelates and eight more with acting chairmen in charge and 38 vicariates, 1, 218 parishes and 1, 310 parish priests, 1331 churches, 73 monasteries and 234 chapels, as well as 1, 373 schools with 2, 266 teachers and 78, 854 pupils.

The tikanga of New Zealand, which serves non-Maoris in New Zealand, is made up of seven dioceses:

After the Synod he divided the church into seven dioceses and consecrated six new bishops to rule each diocese.

The diocese is one of the seven Roman-Catholic dioceses suffragan to the Archdiocese of Utrecht.

# The enactments of the seven provincial councils of Baltimore are obligatory for all the dioceses of the United States.

The compounds are divided according to composition into seven categories.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

There are seven distinct audio circuits, designed by Howard Delman.

The collection contains about one thousand examples and are divided into seven rooms called Masks of the World, Mexico across History, The Huichols and the Jaguar, Alebrijes and Dances of Guerrero, Devils and Death, Identity and Fantasy, and Afro-Indian masks.

Since there are only seven hotel chains in the game, placing a tile that would create an eighth chain is not permitted.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

FireTrack exploits a division in the way the Electron handles its display — of the seven available graphics modes, two are configured so that the final two of every ten scanlines are blank and are not based on the contents of RAM.

* 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.

The ruins of the town may still be seen on Cape Balastra ; they cover seven small hills, and extend from an eastern to a western harbor ; on the southwestern hills are the remains of the medieval settlement of Polystylon.

The Silver Sands are located on the East side of the village, and are one of Scotland's seven " Blue flag " awarded beaches, which denotes an exemplary standard of cleanliness, facilities, safety, environmental education and management.

Massachusetts also has a " Day of Rest " statute that provides that all employees are entitled to one day off from work in seven calendar days.

There are seven major rivers in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

In addition to the seven structural proteins, three non-structural ( NS ) proteins, NS1, NS2, NS3 ( and a related NS3A ) are synthesised in BTV-infected cells.

Teams are divided into seven levels based on the performance of each country.

Thus, there are 35 possible basic contracts ( five at each of the seven levels ); 1 being the lowest, followed by 1 etc., up to 7NT, the highest possible bid.

This early dating is centered on the preterist interpretation of chapter 17, where the seven heads of the " beast " are regarded as the succession of Roman emperors up to the time of the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, Caligula through Vespasian.

There are seven Munros ( hills in Scotland over ) in the estate, the highest being Lochnagar at.

There are nearly 20, 000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher.

Included in the Museum & Gallery collection are seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West painted for George III, called " The Progress of Revealed Religion ," which are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.

In Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,, in 1952, a Roman Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned Parenthood Federation or to resign from the hospital staff.

After seven days and nights in agony, Alcmene stretched out her arms and called upon Lucina, the goddess of childbirth ( the Roman equivalent of Eileithyia ).

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

After the construction of the Theodosian Walls in the early 5th century, it was extended to the new Golden Gate, reaching a total length of seven Roman miles.

This view acknowledges that there may be valid preteristic connections ( e. g. the seven hills = Rome ) but the full understanding comes through an idealistic-historicism ( but without necessarily seeing the Roman Catholic Church as the antichrist ).

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

However, the Orthodox churches accept only the first seven general councils as genuinely ecumenical, while Roman Catholics accept twenty-one.

Of the seven councils recognized in whole or in part by both the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church as ecumenical, all were called by the Roman Emperor, not by the Pope.

In the history of Christianity, the First seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) to the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ), represent an attempt to reach an orthodox consensus and to unify Christendom under the State church of the Roman Empire.

As late as the 11th century, only seven councils were recognized as ecumenical in the Roman Catholic Church.

Both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches recognize seven councils in the early centuries of the church, but Roman Catholics also recognize fourteen councils in later times called or confirmed by the Pope.

The first seven councils were called by the Byzantine Emperors and the sixteenth by the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

The Roman Curia consists of a complex of offices that administer church affairs at the highest level, including the Secretariat of State, nine Congregations, three Tribunals, eleven Pontifical Councils, and seven Pontifical Commissions.

The Roman persecution of Christians ended in AD 313 under the reign of Constantine the Great, who in 325 prompted the First Council of Nicaea, the beginning of the period of the First seven Ecumenical Councils.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

The seven low notes that should be written on the F clef are replaced by Arabic or Roman numerals and written on the G clef.

In the south of the island are the Mastichochoria, literally: Mastic Villages ), the seven villages of Mesta ( Μεστά ), Pyrgi ( Πυργί ), Olυmpi ( Ολύμποι ), Kalamoti ( Καλαμωτń ), Vessa ( Βέσσα ), Lithi ( Λιθί ) and Elata ( Ελάτα ), which together have controlled the production of mastic gum in the area since the Roman period.

Under the Rashidun, the Arabs conquered the Persian Empire, along with Roman Syria and Roman Egypt during the Byzantine-Arab Wars, all within just seven years from 633 to 640.