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Exarch

noun
(pl. exarchs)
1.
A bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America.
2.
A bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan.
3.
A viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire.





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"Exarch" Quotes from Famous Books



... looks upon religion largely in a national sense. In the ninth century her first care in changing her religion was to safeguard national interests. In the nineteenth century the first great concession she wrung from her Turkish masters was the setting up (1870) of a Bulgarian Exarch to be the official head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church independent of the Greek Patriarch. A little later in the days of her freedom, when to her Roman Catholic ruler, King Ferdinand, was born a ...
— Bulgaria • Frank Fox
... his nephew, Justin II., who lived to see the conquest of the greater part of Italy by Alboin, king of the Lombards (568-570), the disaffection of the exarch, Narses, and the ruin of the revived glories of the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


Words linked to "Exarch" :   bishop, viceroy, vicereine


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