NOUN
- a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America
- a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire
- a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan
How To Use exarch In A Sentence
- 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
- The celebrated monastery of Rila possesses a vast estate in the Rilska Planina; its abbot or _hegumen_ owns no spiritual superior but the exarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- 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
- The mob thereupon rose, slew Phocas, and proclaimed Heraclius, the son of the exarch, as emperor. 610
- Italy having come into the hands of the French, a change of form and order took place, the popes acquiring greater temporal power, and the new authorities adopting the titles of count and marquis, as that of duke had been introduced by Longinus, exarch of Ravenna. The History of Florence
- Conspiracy against Phocas, led by Priscus and supported by the exarch of Africa. 610
- The title exarch is here applied to the primate of a group of provincial churches, as it had been used by Ibas, bishop of Edema, at his trial in NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
