exarch
/ek-sahrk/US // ˈɛk sɑrk //UK // (ˈɛksɑːk) //
酋长,酋长长老,酋长先生,酋长大人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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.
Examples
The officials of the empire, a distant exarch at Ravenna, a feeble prtor at Rome, had no power either to protect or to rescue.
A fleet, fitted out by him in support of the exarch, was lost in a storm.
They were ignorant of their new exarch; and Longinus was himself ignorant of the state of the army and the province.
Many of the recently converted uniates, on the other hand, offered their allegiance to the exarch.
Caesarea was an important diocese, and its bishop was, ex officio, exarch of the great diocese of Pontus.
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