metropolitanate
(mɛtrəʊˈpɒlɪtəneɪt)
[f. metropolitan + -ate1.]
The office or see of a metropolitan bishop.
| 1854 Milman Lat. Chr. III. 363 That ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours, the priorate, the abbacy, the bishopric, the metropolitanate. 1895 W. H. Hutton Laud iii. 120 He..claimed the right to visit the Universities as inherent in the metropolitanate. |