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Meanings of metropolitan see in English

Russian
митрополия
Catalan
metròpoli
Spanish
metrópolis

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

        митрополия
        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...
        Usage of metropolitan see in English
        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 ...
        6
        His grandfather filled the Metropolitan see of Dublin previous to Archbishop Whately.
        A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral / Comprising a brief history o...
        7
        And more was added each year, flooding in from Vatican ambassadors, metropolitan sees, and individual parishes.
        Map of bones
        8
        His strong championship of the independence of the Scottish church involved him in struggles with both the English metropolitan sees.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        9
        Show in how many ways you can deny the following assertions: All cathedral towns are all cities; Canterbury is the Metropolitan see.
        Logic: Deductive and Inductive
        10
        The names of twenty-five metropolitan sees are on record, embracing of course a far greater number of bishoprics, and still more numerous congregations.
        History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners F...
        11
        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.
        History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the Frenc...