exarch
1Eastern Church.
a patriarch's deputy.
a title originally applied to a patriarch but later applied only to a bishop ranking below a patriarch and above a metropolitan.
the ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.
Origin of exarch
1Other words from exarch
- ex·arch·al, adjective
Words Nearby exarch
Other definitions for exarch (2 of 2)
(of a primary xylem or root) developing from the center; having the youngest cells closest to the core.
Origin of exarch
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How to use exarch in a sentence
The officials of the empire, a distant exarch at Ravenna, a feeble prtor at Rome, had no power either to protect or to rescue.
The Makers of Modern Rome | Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantA fleet, fitted out by him in support of the exarch, was lost in a storm.
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) | John William DraperThey were ignorant of their new exarch; and Longinus was himself ignorant of the state of the army and the province.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonMany of the recently converted uniates, on the other hand, offered their allegiance to the exarch.
Caesarea was an important diocese, and its bishop was, ex officio, exarch of the great diocese of Pontus.
British Dictionary definitions for exarch (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɛksɑːk) /
the head of certain autonomous Orthodox Christian Churches, such as that of Bulgaria and Cyprus
any of certain Eastern Orthodox bishops, lower in rank than a patriarch but higher than a metropolitan
the governor of a province in the Byzantine Empire
Origin of exarch
1Derived forms of exarch
- exarchal, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for exarch (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɛksɑːk) /
Origin of exarch
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