In stand-alone ecclesiastical provinces, the Primate is the metropolitan archbishop of the province.

A metropolitan archbishop also wears a pallium within his own ecclesiastical province, once he has received it from the Pope.

Thus the restored hierarchy consisted of one metropolitan archbishop and twelve suffragan bishops.

The denomination is governed by a synod of diocesan bishops (currently seven) and a metropolitan archbishop.

He is known as the metropolitan archbishop of that see.

There are currently 33 metropolitan archbishops in the United States.

His suffragan diocese, however, is part of a larger ecclesiastical province, nominally led by a metropolitan archbishop.

They are the ones who shear the lambs' wool used to make the palliums of new metropolitan archbishops.

He later became metropolitan archbishop of Ephesus and died in Constantinople in c. 1090.

He was appointed as metropolitan archbishop of the see of Naples on 9 August.