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Noun Concept
Categories: Christian terminology, Metropolises, Eastern Catholicism stubs, Eastern Orthodoxy stubs, Episcopacy in Roman Catholicism
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metropolis  metropolis religious jurisdiction  metropolitain archdiocese  metropolitain see  metropolitan archdiocese
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A metropolis, metropolitanate or metropolitan diocese is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical province. Wikipedia
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A metropolis, metropolitanate or metropolitan diocese is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical province. Wikipedia
Overseen by a metropolitan bishop Wikipedia Disambiguation
diocese headed by an archbishop and having suffragan dioceses under its jurisdiction Wikidata
The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops. Wiktionary