Eparchy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
  • n. one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
  • n. in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
  • n. in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ancient Greece, a province, prefecture, or territory under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; in modern Greece, a subdivision of a nomarchy or province, itself divided into demes, corresponding to the arrondissements and communes of France.
  • n. In the early church and in the Gr. Ch., an ecclesiastical division answering to the civil province.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  • n. a province in ancient Greece
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    episcopate    bishopric    diocese    province    state   
     
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