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exarch
1[ ek-sahrk ]
noun
- Eastern Church.
- a patriarch's deputy.
- a title originally applied to a patriarch but later applied only to a bishop ranking below a patriarch and above a metropolitan.
- the ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.
exarch
2[ ek-sahrk ]
adjective
- (of a primary xylem or root) developing from the center; having the youngest cells closest to the core.
exarch
1/ ˈɛɑː /
noun
- the head of certain autonomous Orthodox Christian Churches, such as that of Bulgaria and Cyprus
- any of certain Eastern Orthodox bishops, lower in rank than a patriarch but higher than a metropolitan
- the governor of a province in the Byzantine Empire
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ·a adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of exarch1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of exarch1
Origin of exarch2
Example Sentences
The exarch was a governor general, to whom the dukes, prefects or patricians, and also the governors of particular territories or cities, were subordinate.
Finally, in the pinnae of the frond the centrifugal xylem may disappear, the protoxylem being now exarch in position and abutting on the phloem.
It was well governed by the aged exarch Heraclius, who was so well liked in the province that the emperor had not dared to depose him.
The patriarch and his synod now stigmatized Phyletism, the struggle for a national church establishment, as accursed heresy, and excommunicated the exarch and the whole Bulgarian church.
In the modern Greek Church an exarch is a deputy, or legate a latere, of the patriarch, whose office it is to visit the clergy and churches in the provinces allotted to him.
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