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Meanings of metropolitain see in anglès

rus
митрополия
català
metròpoli
espanyol
metrópolis

Diocese headed by an archbishop and having suffragan dioceses under its jurisdiction.

        metròpoli
        Synonyms
        Examples for "metropolis"
        Examples for "metropolis"
        1
        Five weeks in the great metropolis had worked wonders in the boy.
        Richard Dare's Venture; Or, Striking Out for Himself
        2
        Today, Wenling is a typical medium-sized metropolis in Zhejiang province, southern China.
        The Guardian
        3
        Then came Richmond; the metropolis of the world, to the young voyager.
        Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
        4
        It gave him a new picture of the metropolis, he told us.
        The new yorker
        5
        In the metropolis, an extraordinary assembly of the national union took place.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        1
        The church of Seville has been a metropolitan see ever since the third century.
        The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
        2
        He was afterwards raised, through the usual course of episcopal preferment, to the metropolitan see of Seville.
        The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
        3
        Convicted of the crime, he who had resigned his metropolitan see was deprived of the office of patriarch.
        The Deeds of God Through the Franks
        4
        By the elevation of Talavera to the metropolitan see of Granada, the office of queen's confessor became vacant.
        The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
        5
        The ecclesiastical organisation of the country was then consolidated; Gnesen was made the metropolitan see, and Polish and Pomeranian dioceses were placed under it.
        The Church and the Barbarians / Being an Outline of the History ...