EPARCHY

Eparchy

Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word, authentically Latinized as eparchia, which can be loosely translated as the rule or jurisdiction over something, such as a province, prefecture, or territory. It has specific meanings both in politics, history and in the hierarchy of the Eastern Christian churches.

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eparchy

Noun

  1. one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
  2. one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
  3. in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
  4. in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop


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