metropolitancy

metropolitancy (countable and uncountable, plural metropolitancies)

1. (Orthodox Christianity) The see or province of a metropolitan.
   • 1738, Henry Pickworth’s Vindication of His Former Defence of a Certain Narrative, He Sometime Since Presented to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, London, page 42:

     […]; whereby, inſtead of his long evpected Entrance upon our deceaſed Fox’s Metropolitancy, he was in no ſmall Danger of gaining H⸺ter, had not the Lord Ranelaw, with ſome other Friends of his at Court, prevailed with our moſt gracious King W. to grant him his Pardon according to his ſaid Collectors Relation; […] How he came to be baulk’d by George Whitehead out of our aboveſaid Metropolitancy, we in the Country had made ourselves ſo ſure he would have been placed in;

   • 1855, R W Morgan, The Church and Its Episcopal Corruptions in Wales; An Appeal to the People of England, 2nd edition, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 36:

     Where is the Archbishop and his Metropolitancy to remove this hard, concrete, substantial scandal in the Episcopate?

   • 1981, Rethinking Ukrainian History, →ISBN, page 241:

     In the broad sense, “Rus’” designated all the vast lands under the rule of the House of Riurik and the spiritual authority of the Kievan metropolitancy.

   • 1988, A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology, page 166:

     He was stripped of his metropolitancy in 1763 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1767 for his protests against confiscation of church properties by the Russian government.