metropolitanate
English
editEtymology
editFrom metropolitan + -ate.
Noun
editmetropolitanate (plural metropolitanates)
- The see of a metropolitan bishop.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- 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 .
References
edit- “metropolitanate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.