Rzymska geneza kościelnych instytucji metropolii i metropolity

• Authors: Machalica Maciej

Title variants

The Roman Origins of the Office of the Metropolitan and the Institution of the Metropolitan See

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This short article accounts for the origins of the metropolitan office in Catholic Church. The first chapter describes Greek and the Roman cultural context of this institution referring to the history of the ancient ‘polis’ and the imperial ‘province’. The second chapter deals with the necessity to creating the office of the metropolitan in the early stage of the development of the ecclesial hierarchy given the cultural background present in that historical period. The further analysis shows the way these ecclesiastical units were evolving during the antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Keywords

EN

metropolitan; metropolitan see; Church history; ecclesiastical province; emperor

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Bernardinum
• Journal: Studia Pelplińskie
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Pages: 175-190

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Machalica Maciej

Identifiers

ISSN

0239-4456