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Metropolitan |
 | | In ecclesiastical language, refers to whatever relates to the metropolis, the principal city, or see, of an ecclesiastical province; thus we speak of a metropolitan church, a metropolitan chapter, a metropolitan official, etc. The word metropolitan, used without any qualificative, means the bishop of the metropolitan see, now usually styled archbishop. |
 | | In the course of this visitation, the metropolitan, like the bishop, has the right of "procuration ", i.e., he and his retinue must be received and entertained at the expense of the churches visited. |
 | | On this principle the nullity of Napoleon's marriage was decided by the diocesan and the metropolitan officials of Paris, 1810 (Schnitzer, "Kathol. |
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