exarch

Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɑɹk/

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America
  2. noun a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan
  3. noun a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin exarchus.

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