Metropolitan
Metropolitan (?; 277) , adjective
[Latin metropolitanus: compare French métropolitain.]
1.
Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
2.
(Ecclesiastical) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
Bishops metropolitan.
Metropolitan , noun
[Late Latin metropolitanus.]
1.
The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
2.
(Lat. Church.) An archbishop.
3.
(Greek Church) A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. — Hook