Here we see reappearing the jurisdiction of metropolitans, which in many other churches is little exercised at the present day. On the question of their authority the council furnishes another subject worthy of remark.
In enumerating the rights of archbishops in reference to their ecclesiastical provinces, the fathers have designated but three:
1. To make known to the holy see such of their suffragans as do not observe the laws of residence.
2. To call the said suffragans to a provincial council, at least every three years.
3. To have their cross borne before them in their province, and to wear the pallium therein on the days when they can wear it in their metropolitan church.
The letter written from Rome for the correction of the acts orders two other privileges of metropolitans to be re-established:
1. To supply what is negligently omitted by their suffragans in the cases determined by law; and
2. to receive appeals from the sentence of their suffragans according to the canonical rules.
If we do not deceive ourselves, there is in this correction a significant tendency.
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