Official documents for eastern countries giving the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a Church. The hierarchical order included the patriarch, greater metropolitans, archbishops, exempt bishops, and suffragan bishops. Among these documents are the "Ecthesis of pseudo-Epiphanius," and "Notitia of Basil the Armenian."
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