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Metropolitan vs Metropolitical - What's the difference?

metropolitan | metropolitical |

As adjectives the difference between metropolitan and metropolitical

is that metropolitan is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan while metropolitical is (archaic) metropolitan; pertaining to a metropolis.

As a noun metropolitan

is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

metropolitan

English

(wikipedia metropolitan)

Alternative forms

* metropolitan bishop

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 514:
  • *:Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.
  • The inhabitant of a metropolis.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
  • Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

    • metropolitical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) metropolitan; pertaining to a metropolis
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall