- ANASTA`SIUS
- the name of four popes: A. I., the most eminent, pope from 398 to 401; A. II., pope from 496 to 498; A. III., pope from 911 to 913; A. IV., pope from 1153 to 1154.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AUTOCEPHALI — Graecis Αὐτοκέφαλοι, dicti his sunt Episcopi seu Archiepiscopi, qui, a Patrinrchis non dependentes, ratione iurisdictionis, eôdem ac illi αὐτοκεφαλίας iure gaudebant, nulli alii subiecti: Cuiusmodi Cypri Archiepiscopus est, ex Concilii Ephesini… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale