ecclesiarch

• Likewise with the rise of Moscow as the center of pre-Romanov Russia: the metropolitan of Kiev remained the premier ecclesiarch of the Russian lands even when he was removed to the city of Vladimir in 1316 (and later to Moscow). —  orrologion
• The five cross-bearers_, or dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher, Sylvester Syropulus, has composed a free and curious history of the false union. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
• In this list, the Greeks appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
• [48] The five _cross-bearers_, or dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher, Sylvester Syropulus, [49] has composed a free and curious history [50] of the _false_ union. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
• Why might not the author be of Syrian extraction?] [Footnote 50: From the conclusion of the history, I should fix the date to the year 1444, four years after the synod, when great ecclesiarch had abdicated his office, (section xii.p. 330 -- 350.) —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6

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