It was the rare good fortune of Bec, that the abbey furnished two successive metropolitans to the English church, both of them selected for their erudition, Lanfranc and Anselm.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
They will see that, during twelve hundred years, bishops received the canonical institution from the metropolitans, and not from the Pope.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon
Thus to tax with intrusion the constitutional bishops, and condemn them because they have received that institution from the metropolitans, is to condemn the first twelve centuries of christianity.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon