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eparchy

Pronunciation: /ˈɛpˌɑɹ.ki/

The English word “eparchy” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
  2. A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)
  3. An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
  4. In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
  5. In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

Etymology

Via Late Latin eparchia from Koine Greek ἐπαρχία (eparkhía, “province; prefecture”), from Ancient Greek ἔπαρχος (éparkhos, “commander, governor; prefect, eparch”) from ἐπι- (epi-, “on, upon; over”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”); equivalent to epi- + -archy.

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