Metropolitan

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

2. An archbishop.

3. A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. Hook.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

2. Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. "Bishops metropolitan." Sir T. More.