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Petro Mohyla, Moldavian noble, Eastern Orthodox theologian, and Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus'. In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite [1]), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis.
The Metropolis of Pittsburgh is a sui juris metropolitan see of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that is located in the United States of America and Canada. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church is one of 23 sui juris ('self governing') Eastern Catholic particular churches in the Catholic Church that is in full communion with the Holy See.
The United States has two Eastern Catholic metropoliae, each led by a metropolitan archbishop called an archeparch: In the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church there is a single metropolis — the Metropolis of Pittsburgh; The four Ukrainian Catholic eparchies constitute the second metropolia. Philadelphia is the metropolitan see.
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA is not a metropolitan diocese. The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, with territory that extends over the United States and Canada, was established on January 1, 2012, for former Anglicans who join the Catholic Church. [1]
Other non-metropolitan archdioceses are directly subject to the Holy See and are merely "aggregated" to an ecclesiastical province, without being part of it. In the Eastern Catholic Churches , a metropolitanate is an autonomous church of a lower category than the patriarchal and the major archiepiscopal churches and is headed by a single ...
Borys Andrij Gudziak [a] (born 24 November 1960) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church serving, since 2019, as the Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. He founded the Institute of Church History and served as the rector and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Gudziak has authored and ...
In the letter, Metropolitan Kocisko and the other bishops called to task the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church held in Zagorsk, USSR from May 30 through June 2 of that same year. On June 1, the Russian bishops officially declared the Union of Uzhhorod to be annulled, justifying the liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in ...
In Ireland, and in other countries whose Roman Catholic usage it influenced, all bishops, not archbishops alone, are titled the Most Reverend (Most Rev.). Clergy are often referred to with the title Doctor ( Dr. ), or have D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) placed after their name, where justified by their possession of such degree.