Metropolitan

Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

An archbishop.

A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity