Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A metropolitan is an archbishop who has authority over the other bishops in his province or archdiocese. In the Western Church metropolitans and archbishops are basically the same, but in the Eastern Church metropolitans are superior to ordinary archbishops. See also: Primate (religion) Exarch Patriarch Metropolis This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.