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Metropolitan

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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(Greek: metropolis, city)

An archbishop who is placed over a certain section of a country, comprising a certain number of suffragan dioceses. Every metropolitan is an archbishop, but not every archbishop is a metropolitan, because there are titular bishops beside resident archbishops. The metropolitan has all the rights of a bishop in his diocese. He may call a provincial council, and preside over it; pontificate in all the churches in his district and grant an indulgence of 100 days; exercise the right of devolution; and he enjoys the following honorary rights: precedence over bishops, to have carried before him the archiepiscopal cross through his province, and also of using the pallium in his province.

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Entry for 'Metropolitan'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​m/metropolitan.html. 1910.
 
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