eparchy (English, noun)
expansion: eparchy (plural eparchies)
Senses:
glosses: A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
qualifier: Ancient Greece; Byzantine Empire; Ancient Greece; Byzantine Empire
glosses: 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)
tags: Roman-Empire
historical
glosses: An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
tags: historical
topics: Christianity
glosses: In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.
Forms:
form: eparchies
tags: plural