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METROPOLITAN
An archbishop who is placed over a certain section of a country, comprising a number of suffragan dioceses. However, not every archbishop is a metropolitan, because there are both titular and resident archbishops.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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