- Relating to a city - 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.