Most Holy Bishop of the Catholic Church --Council of Soissions, of 300 Bishops.
Most Holy and Blessed Patriarch --Ibid., t. vii,. Council.
Most Blessed Lord --St. Augustine, Ep. 95.
Universal Patriarch --St. Leo, P., Ep. 62.
Chief of the Church in the World --Innoc. ad P. P. Concil. Milevit.
The Bishop elevated to the Apostolic eminence --St. Cyprian, Ep. 3, 12.
Father of Fathers --Council of Chalcedon, Sess. iii.
Sovereign Pontiff of Bishops --Id., in fraef.
Sovereign Priest --Council of Chalcedon, Sess. xvi.
Prince of Priests --Stephen, Bishop of Carthage.
Prefect of the House of God and Guardian of the Lord's Vineyard --Council of Carthage, Ep. to Damasus.
Vicar of Jesus Christ, Confirmer of the Faith of Christians --St. Jerome, Praef. in Evang. ad Damasum.
High-Priest --Valentinian, and all antiquity with him.
The Sovereign Pontiff --Council of Chalcedon, in Epist. ad Theodos. Imper.
The Prince of Bishops --Ibid.
The Heir of the Apostles --St. Bern., lib. de Consid.
Abraham by the Patriarchate --St. Ambrose, in 1 Tim. iii.
Mechisedech by ordination --Council of Chalcedon, Epist. ad Leonem.
Moses by authority --St. Bernard, Epist. 190.
Samuel by jurisdiction --Id. lib., et in lib. de Consider.
Peter by power --Ibid.
Christ by unction --Ibid.
The Shepherd of the Fold of Jesus Christ --Id. lib. ii. de Consid.
Key-Bearer of the House of God --Id. ibid. c. viii.
The Shepherd of all Shepherds --Ibid.
The Pontiff called to the plentitude of all power --Ibid.
St. Peter was the Mouth of Jesus Christ --St. Chrysost. Hom. ii., in Div. Serm.
The Mouth and Head of the Apostleship --Orig., Hom. lv. in Matth.
The Cathedra and Principal Church --St. Cypr., Ep. lv. ad Cornel.
The Source of Sacerdotal Unity --Id., Epist. iii. 2.
The Bond of Unity --Id. ibid. iv. 2.
The Church where resides the chief power (potentior principalitas) --Id. ibid. iii. 8.
The Church the Root and Mother of all the others --St. Anaclet. Papa, Epist. ad omnes Episc. et Fideles.
The See on which our Lord has built the Universal Church --St. Damasus, Epist. ad Univ. Episcop.
The Cardinal Point and Head of all the Churches --St. Marcellinus, R. Epist. ad Episc. Anthioch.
The Refuge of Bishops --Con. Alex., Epist. ad Felic. P.
The Supreme Apostolic See --St. Athanasius.
The Presiding Church --Emperor Justin., in lib. viii., Cod. de Sum. Trinit.
The Supreme See which cannot be judged by any other --St. Leo, in Nat. SS. Apost.
The Church set over and preferred to all the others --Vicot d'Utiq., in lib. de Perfect.
The first of all the Sees --St. Prosper, in lib. de INgrat.
The Apostolic Fountain --St. Ignatius, Epist. ad Rom, in Subscript.
The most secure Citadel of all Catholic Communion --Council of Rome under St. Gelasius.
The sweet Christ on earth. --Saint Catherine of Siena.
The servant of the servants of Christ. --Pope Saint Gregory the Great.
This list is of St. Francis de Sales in Rev. J. Balmes, Protestantism and Catholicity: Compared in their Effects on the Civilization of Europe, Baltimore: Murphy and Co., 1850, 423.
