"Metropolite" is a word in ENGLISH

A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered ln quare impedit, addressed to the …

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct …

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.

A spiritual court in England, belng a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction …

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests.

The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.

Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

An archbishop.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his …

ln Engllsh law. one of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance tiiat archbishops were consecrated at first …

The see of a metropolitan bishop.

Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair.

One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has …

A bishop considered as an assistant, or as subject, to his metropolitan; an assistant bishop.