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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Metropolitan. Christian bishop of a province, who presides over all the other bishops in the province.

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