Un testimonio tardío de ludi theatrales en Hispania by Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez

“…It is said that a letter written by The Visigothic king Sisebutus (AD 612-621) and addressed to Eusebius, the metropolitan bishop of Tarragona, could give us the later date for the exhibition of ludi theatrales at Hispania (AD 614/620). …”
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Two Byzantine Seals from the Excavation of the Medieval Fortress “Malkoto kale” (Yambol Region, Bulgaria) by Nikolay Kanev

“…The seal belongs to a clergyman – a metropolitan bishop of Athens, named Nicetas (Νικήτας).…”
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“Russian Idea” in Bulgarian Social and Political Life of Last Quarter of 19^th Century (by Example of Views and Activities of the Highest Church Hierarchs) by V. V. Bondareva

“…The author analyzes the historical significance, the scope and content of the “Russian idea” in the life of the Bulgarian society and state on the example of the attitudes and activities of the Supreme Church hierarchs (Exarch Joseph I and the Metropolitan Bishop Clement of Tarnovo). “Russian idea” is considered in the work not just as a structural element of a certain system of socio-political views, but also as a way of organizing the historical and political space of Bulgaria, as a special principle in the strategic modeling of the direction of its historical development with a certain geopolitical perspective on the basis of Slavs and Orthodoxy. …”
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CANONICAL AND HISTORICAL EVALUATION OF THE PRACTICE OF “MONTHLY COURTS” OF THE KYIV METROPOLITANATE ON THE BASIS OF THE CERTIFICATES OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH by archpriest Volodymyr Vakin

“…Based on the sources that have surivived until our time, we receive testimony about “monthly courts” as the right of the Metropolitan Bishop of Kyiv to come to Novhorod once in every four years, in person or by outsourcing that to special clergy, and to hear court cases within one month. …”
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Les documents copto-arabes dans les archives chrétiennes d’Éthiopie : de rares témoins de l’autorité épiscopale (XIVe-XVe s.) by Anaïs Wion

“…From the fourth century until the middle of the twentieth century, its metropolitan bishops were appointed by the Patriarchal See of Alexandria. …”
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Biskupi Dyrrachionu w strukturach patriarchatu Konstantynopola (VII-XI wiek) by Jarosław Dudek

“…From this perspective, one may follow the evo­lution of the local bishopric status based on preserved registers of bishoprics sub­ject to Constantinople (Notitiae episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitane) as well as the lists of attendance of Dyrrachion’s metropolitan bishops at the Trullan Synod (692) and The Second Council of Nicaea (787). …”
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Глазирана паничка за керамопластична украса с монограм от Червен (опит за реконструкция и идентификация)... by Georgi Sengalevich

“…Concerning the interpretation of the inscription, it is necessary to consider similar monograms belonging to high-ranking patrons in the socio-political life: tsars, despotes, high-ranking individuals in the military administration, high-born members, as well as high-ranking clergymen – patriarchs and metropolitan bishops, which are found on the exterior or in the interior of a number of Late Byzantine churches. …”
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