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2. If they mean that theſe were then made Eccleſiaſtical Metropolis’s, it’s a fiction without, and againſt, Hiſtorical evidence, which tells us of a far later date of Metropolitical Churches. 3. If they mean that they were Metropolis’s only in a Civil ſenſe, and that the Apoſtles, in planting Churches there, purpoſed or ordained that afterwards Church-Power ſhould follow the Order of the Seats of Civil Power, I anſwer 1.[…]

That he had never requeſted the Emperor to make his City a Metropolis; but it was the Cuſtom for the Emperor to make Metropolis’s, that it was not he that divided the Provinces, but the Council;[…]That the Biſhop of Conſtantinople should enjoy the ſame Prerogatives of Honour, and had right to Ordain in the Sees of the Metropolis’s, in the Dioceſes of Thrace, Aſia, and Pontus, such Perſons as ſhould be chosen by the Clergy, People, and Nobles;

The ſecond concerns the Elections that are to be confirmed by the Pope, as, Metropolis’s, Cathedrals and Monaſteries, depending immediately on the Pope, and have the Privilege of a Canonical Election.[…]France is alſo divided by her Metropolis’s;