1. (a.) Pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
2. (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.
3. (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
4. (n.) An archbishop.
5. (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
Thesaurus Entries
Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, antipope, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch, high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, vicar
