Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ruler of the church; an ecclesiastical magnate. Bailey, 1727
- noun In the Gr. Ch., a sacrist or sacristan; a church officer who has charge of a church and its contents, and summons the worshipers by semantron or otherwise. In the more important churches the ecclesiarch formerly had minor officials under his authority.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
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- noun An
official of the Eastern Church, resembling asacrist in the Western Church.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My informant was Professor Tholuck, of Halle University, the most eminent living theologian in Germany, and the principal ecclesiarch of the Prussian Church.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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Archbishop of Nicaea; Balsamon, the chief chartophylax; Syropulos, the chief ecclesiarch, and the Bishops of Monembasia, Lacedaemon, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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[48] The five _cross-bearers_, or dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher, Sylvester Syropulus, [49] has composed a free and curious history [50] of the _false_ union.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In this list, the Greeks appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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[48] The five _cross-bearers_, or dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher, Sylvester Syropulus, [49] has composed a free and curious history [50] of the _false_ union.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In this list, the Greeks appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Likewise with the rise of Moscow as the center of pre-Romanov Russia: the metropolitan of Kiev remained the premier ecclesiarch of the Russian lands even when he was removed to the city of Vladimir in 1316 (and later to Moscow).
orrologion 2009
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In this list, the Greeks appear to have exceeded the real numbers of the clergy and laity which afterwards attended the emperor and patriarch, but which are not clearly specified by the great ecclesiarch.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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48 The five cross-bearers, or dignitaries, of St. Sophia, were bound to attend his person; and one of these, the great ecclesiarch or preacher,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Why might not the author be of Syrian extraction?] [Footnote 50: From the conclusion of the history, I should fix the date to the year 1444, four years after the synod, when great ecclesiarch had abdicated his office, (section xii.p. 330 -- 350.)
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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