| Gregory's plan was that there would be two metropolitans, one at York and one at London, with 12 suffragan bishops under each archbishop. |
| These days, of course, such ideas seem to us mature metropolitans ludicrous and paleolithic. |
| I couldn't very well leave a lady at such a time. We small towners are yet to learn the impersonality of metropolitans. |
| In the Greek Orthodox Churches, archbishops are ranked above metropolitans in precedence. |
| Curiously it's metropolitans in Belfast and Dublin who are the most ready to put on cod Fermanagh accents. |
| No, the outsize and eccentric figures of the Empire have passed into history, and now the establishment is filled with dull corporatist metropolitans. |
