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metropolitan

ecclesiastical office, archbishop at the head of a metropolitan archdiocese
Class type of: archbishop Q189854

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
ecclesiastical occupation
Subclass of
archbishop
Applies to jurisdiction
metropolis[3]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[4][5][6][7]
Different from
Metropolitan[8]
Organization directed by the office or position
metropolis[9]
P14541
2tcDe6[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en archbishop en Metropolitan bishop en Metropolitan archbishop en metropolitan en bishop ar مطران cs metropolita da Metropolit da Metropoclit de Erzbischof der Metropole el μητροπολίτης el Μητροπολίτης Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας es metropolitano es arzobispo metropolitano es exarca es metropolita es obispo metropolitano fa اسقف شهری fi metropoliitta fr archevêque métropolitain
🔖 Identifiers · 25
GND ID
4334517-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cardinal Dolan at UST (Sept 2019, Cropped) (cropped).jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300025763
Cultureel Woordenboek ID
religie-en-levensbeschouwing/metropoliet
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
450145
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/metropolitan
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
metropolite
FactGrid item ID
Angel Cop
Freebase ID
/m/01xhy2
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
arquebisbe-metropolita
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0194191
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
metropolitt
Show all 25 identifiers +13
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2218130
Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/MITROPOLIT.html
Lex ID
metropolit
Museum-digital tag ID
91587
National Library of Latvia ID
000073136
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
488839
Orthodox Encyclopedia ID
2563394
Topic's main category
Category:Metropolitan bishops
Treccani ID
metropolita
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
metropolita
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
metropolita
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
10332897-n
YSO ID
28870

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🔗 Connections
Holders of this position 414
Kirill, Patriarch Alexius II, Basilios Bessarion, I. Athenagoras, Hilarion (Alfeyev), Peter Mogila, Amfilohije Radović, Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou +406 more
← Occupation 64
Basilios Bessarion, Philaret, Andrey Sheptytsky, Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, Stefan Yavorsky, Ambrosius of Dorostol +56 more
Subtypes 4
Pope, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine, patriarch of Venice, list of leaders of the Polish Orthodox Church
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
← Position held by head of the organization 2
metropolis, Metropolis of Rodopoli
Applies to jurisdiction 1
metropolis
FactGrid item ID 1
Angel Cop
Organization directed by the office or position 1
metropolis
Subclass of 1
archbishop
Topic's main category 1
Category:Metropolitan bishops
← Authority 1
metropolis
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Metropolitans of Plovdiv
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Metropolitan bishops
← Diocese 1
St. Philip Howard Church, Kingston
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Summary

metropolitan is an ecclesiastical occupation[1]. metropolitan is a type of archbishop[2].

Related Entities

Basilios Bessarion Hilarion (Alfeyev) I. Athenagoras Kirill Patriarch Alexius II Peter Mogila Philaret

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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Metropolitan bishops
    Applies to jurisdiction → metropolis
    Organization directed by the office or position → metropolis
    Different from → Metropolitan
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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