It served as the metropolitan church of Salamis.

The Týn was the metropolitan church of the Utraquists from 1348.

The building was used as a metropolitan church in the period of the Empire of Trabzon.

Nor does the text imply that he gave to the suburbican churches a privilege hitherto exercised by the metropolitan church.

He left a permanent fund of 6500 pounds yearly to the metropolitan church of Chambéry for, among other things, the choir.

During the Second Bulgarian Empire (spanning the 12th to 14th centuries), the structure acquired the status of a metropolitan church.

He described his concept of a "metropolitan church" as the need for an urban church "to do the social bit".

It was intended to be the metropolitan church of the capital.

These more centralized authorities were known as metropolitan churches headed by a Metropolitan bishop.

There was no formal act on the part of the Holy See recognizing Dol as a new metropolitan church.