Metropolitan bishop

A metropolitan bishop, usually called simply a metropolitan, is an archbishop who has authority over the other bishops in his province. In the Western Church metropolitans and archbishops are basically the same, but in the Eastern Church metropolitans are superior to ordinary archbishops.

See also

\n* Primate (religion)\n* Exarch\n* Patriarch\n* Metropolis\n--------\n Metropolitan is also the title of a 1990 movie set in New York City, New York.