How to pronounce “eparchy”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (historical, Ancient Rome) A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
• (historical, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire) A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)
• (historical) An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
• (Christianity) In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
• (Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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