This new Bulgarian Church embraced eight dioceses, Tirnovo being the primatial see, but the union with Rome was not of long duration. |
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In 1192 Celestine III declared that the Ecclesia Scoticana was subject to the papacy alone and was free from the primatial claims of York. |
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Only the bishop of the senior primatial see of each of these two churches participates in the meetings. |
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By ancient tradition, metropolitan and primatial authority was always linked to a specific see. |
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It gives me great pleasure to meet Your Beatitude in this Primatial See of the Orthodox Church of Greece. |
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It was unthinkable and intolerable that the Primatial See of England, Canterbury, should remain vacant, but who was to fill it? |
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