Metropolitan /(?; 277)/

Met·ro·pol·i·tan

Metropolitan

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. (Eccl.)

Metropolitan

n.
  1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
  2. An archbishop. (Lat. Church.)
  3. A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. (Gr. Church)