In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese
In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch
A high military commander, generally standing over a large province, an exarchate; e g , Ravenna (Byzantine Italy), Carthage (Byzantine North Africa) Also occassionally used in Byzantine sources for a tribal military leader
(Gr "representative with full authority") The head of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction, usually an Archbishop, representing the head of the Church (i e , Patriarch) in the administration of a national Church
A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc
Where the maturation and development of the xylem strand is centripetal or 'from the outside inwards' In this case the small xylem cells that are the first to differentiate and mature (the protoxylem) are peripheral to the later developed, longer metaxylem cells
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 a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox churches in North America
referring to cells differentiating towards the outside of the stem, contrasting with endarch
a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan
Civil governor in the late Roman Empire The most notable of these offices was that of Ezarch of Ravenna Eastern ecclesiastical title Lower in rank than a patriarch, but higher than the metropolitans The title has at times been given to metropolitans and patriarchs
[ 'ek-"särk ] (noun.) 1588. Late Latin exarchus, from Late Greek exarchos, from Greek, leader, from exarchein to begin, take the lead, from ex- + archein to rule, begin; more at ARCH-.