metropolitanate

noun

metropolitanate

noun

Etymology From metropolitan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

1

The see of a metropolitan bishop.

that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all .1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:

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