[505] σοῦ τὴν τιμιότητα; sometimes we have ὁσιότητα, “your Holiness.”
[506] Pallad. Dial. c. 14 and 15.
[507] See, on this whole subject, Bingham, viii. 13. 6; and Robertson, i. pp. 187 and 318, and the authorities there cited.
[508] Pallad. Dial. c. 14, 15. Sozomen (viii. 6) says that Chrysostom deposed thirteen bishops of Asia, Lycia, and Phrygia. This is possible, as the synod may have inquired into other simoniacal cases beyond the original six.
[509] Sozom. viii. 6.
[510] Tillemont, xi. p. 170.
[511] Labbé, ii. p. 947. It must always be borne in mind that Diocese was the name of the largest civil division of the Roman Empire. Each diocese contained several provinces, e.g. Thrace, six; Asia, ten; Pontus, eleven. The whole Empire was divided into thirteen dioceses, and about one hundred and twenty provinces. The Ecclesiastical divisions followed more or less the plan of the civil. An archbishop was bishop of the metropolis of a Province, a Patriarch of one or more Dioceses.
[512] Can. xxviii.; and Can. ix. Chalced. in Labbé, iv. pp. 769 and 798.
[513] Comp. Keble, Christian Year, for Easter Day:—
“Sundays by thee more glorious break,