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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
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Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the days of the succeeding Emperors indeed, lwho yielded so far to the ambition of some Bishops, that they were content there should be two Metropolitans in one Province, both these cities were accounted for the Metropoles of Phrygia Pacatiana which is the cause, why in the fourth general Council, assembled at Chalcedon, aswell mNunechius Bishop of the Metropolis of Laodicea, as Stephen Bishop of the Metropolis of Hierapolis, do subscribe for themselves and the absent Bishops which were under them. as also in the fifth general Council held at Constantinople, there is mention made at the same time of nJohn Bishop of the Metropolis of the Laodiceans, and Auxanon Bishop of the Metropolis of the Hierapolitans: & in the sixth, of Tiberius Bishop of the Laodiceans and Sisinnius of the Hierapolitans, either of them ⟨p. 28⟩giving unto his seat the title oof the Metropolis of the Pacatian Phrygians.
In the dayes of the succeeding Emperours indeed, lwho yielded so farr to the ambition of some Bishops, that they were content there should be two Metropolitans in one Province, both these cities were accounted for the Metropoles of Phrygia Pacatiana which is the cause, why in the fourth generall Councell, assembled at Chalcedon, aswell mNunechius Bishop of the Metropolis of Laodicea, as Stephen Bishop of the Metropolis of Hierapolis, do subscribe for themselvs and the absent Bishops which were under them. as also in the fifth general Councell held at Constantinople, there is mention made at the same time of nIohn Bishop of the Metropolis of the Laodiceans, and Auxanon Bishop of the Metropolis of the Hierapolitans: & in the sixth, of Tiberius Bishop of the Laodiceans and Sisinnius of the Hierapolitans, either of them