Metropolitan Bishop

Here likewise the general councils of Spain are held; the Bishops ordained, and the Kings crowned by the hand of the Metropolitan Bishop, to the

Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

The actions of the Office of the Presiding Bishop in the case of the Standing Committee of San Joaquin and that of the deposition of Bishop Duncan are indeed ones associated with a Metropolitan Bishop who enjoys a hierarchical relation with the Dioceses in his or her charge, but not for a Presiding Bishop who does not enjoy such a relationship.

Anglican Mainstream 2008