As the only metropolitan in Taiwan, it is also the primatial see of that country.

We shall later examine the documentary basis of their primatial claim.

It was pre-eminent in Ireland as the most senior primatial see.

The church is the primatial cathedral of the Americas.

And why, having quoted one or more of these primatial passages, did he not produce them at Rome for confirmation?

The primatial church of Lyon adopted them for public services on 8 December 1869.

Once the priests had finished at the altar, only his first primatial blessing and address to the faithful would remain.

Only a papal confirmation of the position as established in 1072 could have provided the basis for a permanent primatial authority.

In all this we should see not personal vanity - Pope John was too old for that - but an act of primatial responsibility.

First of all, who picks the primatial vicar?

He was transferred to the metropolitan and primatial see of Toledo on 3 December 1971.

Current status as a Primatial See is questionable given its changes in status since 1964.

A church under which are ranged metropolitical churches and their provinces is a "primatial cathedral".

They desired likewise that Baltimore should be declared the primatial see of the Republic.

The primatial cross on its heavy, gold-leafed staff Joram held, standing now by the right arm of the throne.

Last week, before the vote, the church offered a compromise for "alternative primatial oversight" to the seven disaffected dioceses.

But he exerted all his powers to bring Thomas to submit to Canterbury's primatial authority.

Even if the surviving letters contained no explicit grant of perpetual primatial power, they were all written in general approval of this situation.

In most provinces of the Anglican Communion, however, an archbishop has metropolitical and primatial power.

List of primates, and years of primatial rule:

All primates and some bishops below primatial rank have the dignity of a second engolpion, which usually depicts Christ.

Gran, the historical German name for Esztergom, a city and primatial seat of Hungary.

He was promoted to the metropolitan and primatial see of Santo Domingo on 15 November 1981.

In practice, however, the primatial right has fallen into desuetude in Ireland as in every other part of the Church.

As an extra-provincial diocese, both metropolitan and primatial authority come directly from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Upon the establishment of the Diocese of Washington in 1981, the metropolitan and primatal see transferred to the new diocese, leaving New York as a local diocese.