 In the Slavic and Antiochian traditions, a metropolitan outranks an archbishop, whereas the reverse is the situation in the Greek tradition.The Antiochian tradition also uses the style 'metropolitan archbishop' to differentiate from metropolitan bishops in the Greek tradition.The change in the Greek tradition came about in later Greek history, because the diocesan bishops of ancient sees (which include most Greek bishops) came to be styled metropolitans, short for "metropolitan bishops".