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Metropolitan vs Patriarch - What's the difference?

metropolitan | patriarch |

As nouns the difference between metropolitan and patriarch

is that metropolitan is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop while patriarch is patriarch.

As an adjective metropolitan

is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

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.

    • patriarch

    English

    (wikipedia patriarch)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Christianity) The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank.
  • In Biblical contexts, a male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
    • Men and brethren, lett me frely speake unto you of the patriarke David: For he is both deed and buryed, and his sepulcre remayneth with us unto this daye.
  • A founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
  • An old leader of a village or community.
  • * 1819 , ”:
    • The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning to night, just moving sufficiently to
  • The male head of a tribal line or family.

    • Synonyms

    * paterfamilias * highfather

    Antonyms

    * matriarch, materfamilias