catholicos

[ kuh-thol-i-kuhs, -kos ]

noun

, plural ca·thol·i·cos·es, ca·thol·i·coi [k, uh, -, thol, -i-koi].

1. (often initial capital letter) Eastern Church.
   1. any of the heads of certain autocephalous churches.
   2. (in some autocephalous churches) a primate subject to a patriarch and having authority over metropolitans.
2. (in the early Christian church) the head of monasteries in the same city.

Catholicos

/ kəˈθɒlɪkɒs /

noun

1. the patriarch of the Armenian Church

Word History and Origins

Origin of catholicos¹

1615–25; < Late Greek katholikós, noun use of Greek adj.; catholic

Word History and Origins

Origin of catholicos¹

C17: from Greek katholikos ; see catholic

Example Sentences

Nec catholicos a libero religionis exercitio impediri debere, neque cuiquam ex his licere Lutheranismum amplecti.

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Hisce responsionibus confisum Parlamentum Angliae Catholicos admisit ad participationem iurium civilium.

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Omnes Episcopi et theologi responderunt Catholicos hoc non tenere.

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And the priest of the Christians is called "Catholicos" in the Greek tongue, because he presides alone over the whole region.

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Sculares qui natale Domini, pascha et pentecosten non communicaverint, catholici non credantur nec inter catholicos habeantur.

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