Meanings of metropolitan see in English

The church of Seville has been a metropolitan see ever since the third century.

He was afterwards raised, through the usual course of episcopal preferment, to the metropolitan see of Seville.

Convicted of the crime, he who had resigned his metropolitan see was deprived of the office of patriarch.

By the elevation of Talavera to the metropolitan see of Granada, the office of queen's confessor became vacant.

The ecclesiastical organisation of the country was then consolidated; Gnesen was made the metropolitan see, and Polish and Pomeranian dioceses were placed under it.

His grandfather filled the Metropolitan see of Dublin previous to Archbishop Whately.

And more was added each year, flooding in from Vatican ambassadors, metropolitan sees, and individual parishes.

His strong championship of the independence of the Scottish church involved him in struggles with both the English metropolitan sees.

Show in how many ways you can deny the following assertions: All cathedral towns are all cities; Canterbury is the Metropolitan see.

The names of twenty-five metropolitan sees are on record, embracing of course a far greater number of bishoprics, and still more numerous congregations.

In case of a metropolitan See, the archbishop-elect should be consecrated by another metropolitan and two bishops or by four bishops appointed by the crown.