Metropolis (religious jurisdiction)
A metropolis, metropolitanate or metropolitan (arch)diocese is an episcopal see whose bishop is the metropolitan bishop or archbishop of an ecclesiastical province. Metropolises, historically, have been important cities in their provinces.
Eastern Orthodox
In the
In the churches of Greek Orthodoxy, every diocese is a metropolis, headed by a metropolitan while auxiliary bishops are the only non-metropolitan bishops.
In non-Greek Orthodox churches, mainly Slavic Orthodox, the title of Metropolitan is given to the heads of
Catholic Church
In the
There are very few suffragan sees that have the rank of archdiocese, such as the
In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a metropolitanate is an autonomous church of a lower category than the patriarchal and the major archiepiscopal churches and is headed by a single metropolitan of a fixed episcopal see.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Britannica: Metropolitan (ecclesiastical title)
- ^ Catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 155 §1
- ^ "John D. Faris, The Eastern Catholic Churches: Constitution and Governance (Saint Maron Publications, New York 1992), p. 376" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2017-07-09.