legates's Usage Examples:

Ages, papal legates were often used to strengthen the links between Rome and the many parts of Christendom.

More often than not, legates were learned.

From the times of the Roman Republic, legates received large shares of the military's rewards at the end of a successful.

as present at a church council (Synod of Calcuthiens) attended by papal legates in 786.

In 1054, following the death of the Patriarch of Rome Leo IX, papal legates (representatives of the Pope) from Rome traveled to Constantinople to deny.

The legates who brought these letters to Constantinople were imprisoned as soon as.

council, were summoned by English ecclesiastics appointed as legates by the pope, rather than legates who had been sent to England by the papacy.

While the latter consisted of professional armies led by apostolic legates, the popular crusades were generally disorganized and consisted of peasants.

court and to consecrate bishops, until in 1070 he was deposed by papal legates and imprisoned at Winchester.

Gregory the Great received the legates bearing the synodal letters which announced his consecration, partly from.

archbishop from escalating the dispute until the legates had decided the issues, and that the legates were to absolve the excommunicated once they arrived.

service to the triumvirs, in 54 BC, he was made one of Julius Caesar's legates, with whom he served for the next five years during Caesar’s campaigns.

for Sertorius, his legates were not able to contain Metellus, and he arrived just in time to save Pompey.

Against Sertorius's legates Metellus and Pompey.

sometimes called the eighth ecumenical in the East was attended by the papal legates (who had brought with them a gift from the pope—a pallium for Photius).

Synonyms:

official emissary; legation; foreign mission; envoy; emissary;