stauropegion – English noun declension

English noun forms of stauropegion

Noun: stauropegion
Singularstauropegion
Pluralstauropegia

Sample Sentences

  • Taronas' church also bore the name of St. Nicholas, and he managed to obtain a patriarchal stauropegion for it. (p. 242) If the patriarch recognized these stauropegia as valid charters of foundation, the bishop would stand to lose his traditional rights over these institutions. (p. 239) [1987, John Philip Thomas, Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire, Dumbarton Oaks, pages 239, 242:]
  • A stauropegial monastery (monasterium stauropegiaceum), in other words, under patriarchal jurisdiction (monasterium iuris patriarchalis), is a monastery which is subject directly to the patriarch (can. 434 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). The CCEC distinguishes 3 types of jurisdictional status of monasteries (can. 434): a) papal, b) patriarchal, c) episcopal. Consequently, granting the Lavra of the Holy Dormition in Univ the status of stauropegion means raising it to patriarchal status. [2008, “Univ Monastery Becomes Subject to Greek Catholic Patriarch”, in RISU:]
  • Theophylact's testimony may be found in his Letter no. 82 to a deacon in the patriarchal administration. Theophylact emphasises to him that the patriarch did not have rights of consecration in the archbishopric, as it was autocephalous. The case concerned an obstinate monk in the bishopric of Kičava who had begun to erect a chapel, protected by a patriarchal stauropegion, against the archbishop's wishes. [2012, “The autocephalous Byzantine ecclesiastical province of Bulgaria/Ohrid. How independent were its archbishops?”, in Bulgaria Mediaevalis, number 3/2012 (1), page 362:]

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σταυροπήγιον (stauropḗgion). See also stauropegial.