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Exarch

noun

(pl. exarchs)

A bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America.

A bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan.

A viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire.

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"Exarch" Quotes from Famous Books

... Emperor Constantine transferred the seat of empire from Rome to Constantinople, the present capital of Turkey. The city was named after Constantine, who founded it. A subsequent emperor appointed a governor, or exarch, to rule Italy, who resided in the city of Ravenna. This new system, as is manifest, did not work well. The Emperor of Constantinople referred all matters to his deputy in Ravenna, and the deputy was more anxious to conciliate the Emperor than to satisfy the people of Rome. Italy and Rome were then ...

— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons

... order and withstanding external aggression, if it were not the case that from the Gothic era onward we hear of scholae militiae cum patronis, manifestly the schools of instruction for the body over which the magister militum presided. These seminaries existed in the days of the exarch Narses, generations before a doge was given to Venice. Yet, through all the time which has now elapsed since the first erection of a separate political jurisdiction, not only the Church, on which such stress was at the very outset laid, but a civil government, and regulations ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

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