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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/25345| Title: | From a suffragan to a metropolitan see |
| Authors: | Bonnici, A. |
| Keywords: | Bishops -- Appointment, call, and election Consecration of bishops Bishops (Canon law) Bishops -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 1966 |
| Publisher: | The Royal University Students' Theological Association |
| Citation: | Bonnici, A. (1966). From a suffragan to a metropolitan see. Melita Theologica, 18(1), 18-21. |
| Abstract: | With the conquest of Malta by Count Roger in 1090, the Island became dependent on the Rulers of Sicily. On July 10, 1154, Pope Hadrian IV declared the Maltese See, governed at the time by a certain Bishop Stefano, suffragan to that of Palermo, which was the metropolis of the Sicilian Kingdom. And thus it remained for almost seven centuries. Since 1098, the Kings of Sicily claimed and exercised the right to present to the Pope the candidates to be invested with the bishoprics within their dominion, Malta included. This right of royal pattonage was retained jointly with some other rights by the Sicilian Kings, even after the cession of the Island to the Knights of St. John in 1530. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25345 |
| Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 18, Issue 1 - 1966 MT - Volume 18, Issue 1 - 1966 |
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