metropolitanateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

metropolitanate (plural metropolitanates)

1. The role or status of a metropolitan bishop.

   Synonym: metropolitanship

2. The see of a metropolitan bishop.

   Synonym: metropolitanship

   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎:

     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.

参照

• “metropolitanate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.