A metropolitan cathedral is a cathedral to which other cathedrals in a province are suffragan. See metropolitan bishop.
Examples of use as a proper name:
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“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
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