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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. In the early church and in the Gr. Ch., an ecclesiastical division answering to the civil province. An eparchy was a subdivision of a diocese in the ancient sense, that is, a patriarchate or exarchate, and in its turn contained dioceses in the modern sense (paræciæ). In the Russian Church all dioceses are called eparchies.

Wiktionary

  1. n. one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
  2. n. one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
  3. n. in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
  4. n. in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  2. n. a province in ancient Greece

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἐπαρχία (eparkhía). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek eparkhiā, provincial government, from eparkhein, to rule over : ep-, epi-, epi- + arkhein, to rule. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. episcopate
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  1. diocese
  1. province
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  1. eparchial
  1. attic
  1. metropolitan

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  • fernando An eparchy is not only a diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church. It is also a diocese in any of the Twenty-One Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Pope. The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches defines eparchy as follows:
    "An eparchy is a portion of the people of God which is entrusted for pastoral care to a bishop (eparch) with the cooperation of the presbyterate so that, adhering to its pastor and gathered by him in the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular church in which the one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and operative (Canon 177 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches)."

    The term eparchy was employed in Byzantine Law to designate a subdivision of a civil diocese. Just as the terms province and diocese came to be employed in ecclesiastical administration in the Catholic Church, so too was the term eparchy adopted by the Church. Dec 21, 2009

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