metropolitan see

C7197
concept

A metropolitan see is the principal diocese of an ecclesiastical province, headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has limited supervisory authority over the other dioceses in that province.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
metropolitan see canonical 76
Metropolitan see 11
metropolitan archdiocese 6

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: metropolitan see
Generated description
A metropolitan see is the principal diocese of an ecclesiastical province, headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has limited supervisory authority over the other dioceses in that province.

Instances (108)

Instance Via concept surface
Archbishop of Tarragona —
Metropolitan see of Misis (Mopsuestia) —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne —
Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano suburbicarian see
Major Archiepiscopal See of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara Catholics —
Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tarragona Metropolitan see
Metropolitan see of Galatia —
John Zizioulas metropolitan
Metropolitan of Korçë metropolitanate
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Serena —
Metropolitan of Cappadocia —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hanoi —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico Metropolitan see
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seville metropolitan archdiocese
Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela metropolitan archdiocese
Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception seat of a metropolitan archdiocese
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila —
Archdiocese of Turin —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman —
Major Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog —
Făgăraș and Alba Iulia —
Major Archeparchy of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia —
Archeparchy of Lviv —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quito —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville —
Archeparchy of Prešov of the Slovaks —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague Metropolitan see
Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest metropolitan archdiocese
Archdiocese of Santa Fe —
Archdiocese of Naples —
Archdiocese of Poznań —
Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile —
Metropolitan Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján —
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina suburbicarian see
Archbishop of Toledo —
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina suburbicarian see
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján —
Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valencia —
Archbishop of Ravenna —
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Luxembourg —
Archdiocese of Nidaros —
Bishop of Sabina suburbicarian see
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch —
Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja metropolitanate
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha —