metropolitanaten.
/ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlᵻtəneɪt/, /ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlᵻtn̩eɪt/, U.S. /ˌmɛtrəˈpɑlətnˌeɪt/, /ˌmɛtrəˈpɑlədəˌneɪt/ The position or office of metropolitan; the see or province of a metropolitan bishop.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [noun] > office of
metropolitanshipa1638
provincialate1739
metropolitanate1854
metropolitancy1910
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. v. 363 That ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours, the priorate, the abbacy, the bishopric, the metropolitanate.
1895 W. H. Hutton Laud iii. 120 He..claimed the right to visit the Universities as inherent in the metropolitanate.
1959 J. Gill Council of Florence x. 359 From Buda Isidore issued an encyclical letter to all the territories in his metropolitanate.
1989 Amer. Hist. Rev. 94 387 Although it was small, it was Moscow's first stone building and one of its most important, bringing the metropolitanate into joint tenancy..with Moscow's princes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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