With the enhancement of the dignity of the bishop and the extension of his judicial authority under the patronage of the Empire, the old cathedra
upon which the ante-Nicene bishop had
sat in his capacity as teacher, was gradually converted into a veritable throne, imitative of that of the emperor.25 It is quite possible that the courtly protocol and the sartorial
details of the so - called Donation of Constantine are a reasonably accurate description of the dress, insignia, and prerogatives of the chief bishop of the West in the late imperial period, that even the account of the bestowal of these privileges primarily errs in fictionally ascribing to one emperor what was probably done by several in the course of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that once the fictional monopolization of these prerogatives by one bishop is removed, the Donation is recognized as supplying us with a picture of a late imperial prelate.26
He
sits on the commercial board and was brought in to succeed former chief executive David Gill after helping to engineer the Glazer's takeover and all its precarious, leveraged
details that forced hundreds of millions of pounds of debt
upon United.