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An eparchy is not only a diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church. It is also a diocese in any of the Twenty-One Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Pope. The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches defines eparchy as follows:
"An eparchy is a portion of the people of God which is entrusted for pastoral care to a bishop (eparch) with the cooperation of the presbyterate so that, adhering to its pastor and gathered by him in the Holy Spirit through the Gospel and the Eucharist, it constitutes a particular church in which the one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and operative (Canon 177 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches)."
The term eparchy was employed in Byzantine Law to designate a subdivision of a civil diocese. Just as the terms province and diocese came to be employed in ecclesiastical administration in the Catholic Church, so too was the term eparchy adopted by the Church.
December 21, 2009