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Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury..

Metropolis :: Metropolis (n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary..

Metropolite :: Metropolite (n.) A metropolitan.

Metropolitanate :: Metropolitanate (n.) The see of a metropolitan bishop.

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests..

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority..

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) An archbishop.

Metropolitical :: Metropolitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair..

Archbishop :: Archbishop (n.) A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese..

Archierey :: Archierey (n.) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops..

Primus :: Primus (n.) One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority..

Suffraganship :: Suffragan (a.) A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop..

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