exarchate

NOUN
  1. a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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  • Under these patriarchates and exarchates came the eparchies under metropolitans; they had under them the bishops of the various cities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Roman bishops many lands of the exarchate, which was designated the A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The pope at Rome (Gregory II) likewise declared against the emperor's iconoclasm, and the population of the exarchate of Ravenna rose in revolt and made an alliance with the Lombards. 692
  • When Pope Stephen II. produced a letter from heaven, written in the hand of St. Peter, to Pepin, to complain of the grievances of the king of the Lombards, Astolphus, St. Peter does not mention in his letter that Pepin had made a present of the exarchate of A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Pepin the usurper gave, or was able to give, the exarchate of A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Ravenna, with barbaric pride, built her round-cinctured towers to the glory of the Exarchate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
  • I note that an exarchate is the Eastern Rite parallel to the apostolic administration. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
  • Placentia had been ceded to the holy see as a dependency of the exarchate, asserts that the Greek emperors were justly despoiled of their rights because they had excited the people against God. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • At a time when the court of Rome believed itself deficient in titles, it pretended that Charlemagne had confirmed the donation of the exarchate, and that he added to it Sicily, Venice, Benevento, A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The opposition of the Bulgarians led, as we have already seen, to the establishment in 1870 of the exarchate, that is, of an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church with the exarch at its head. The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition
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