Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A diocese of an Eastern Orthodox Church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Greece, a province, prefecture, or territory under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; in modern Greece, a subdivision of a nomarchy or province, itself divided into demes, corresponding to the arrondissements and communes of France.
- noun In the early church and in the Gr. Ch., an ecclesiastical division answering to the civil province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
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- noun one of the
districts of theRoman Empire at the thirdechelon - noun one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-
Ottoman independentGreece - noun in pre-schism
Christian Church, name for aprovince under the supervision of themetropolitan - noun in Eastern
Christendom ,diocese of a bishop
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- noun a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- noun a province in ancient Greece
Etymologies
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Examples
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• On average, diocesan ordinands lived in the diocese or eparchy for which they will be ordained for 17 years before entering the seminary.
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Along with his religious and pastoral duties, he managed to increase the prestige of the Orthodox Church in the United States, working within the framework of its distinguished mission as an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
OpEdNews - Diary: Archbishop Iakovos: Championing Human Rights 2008
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«833 The phrase "particular Church," which is first of all the diocese or eparchy, refers to a community of the Christian faithful in communion of faith and sacraments with their bishop ordained in apostolic succession.
Bishops in the Catholic Church Fred 2007
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«833 The phrase "particular Church," which is first of all the diocese or eparchy, refers to a community of the Christian faithful in communion of faith and sacraments with their bishop ordained in apostolic succession.
Archive 2007-11-01 Fred 2007
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The Byzantine eparchy of Van Nuys had a fight on its hands to get permission to build its church in Anaheim with just these sort of objections being made.
10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002
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N. of Tenos; it forms an eparchy in the modern kingdom of Greece.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The voter, his citizenship or right to vote in the eparchy being verified, receives one ball or leaden bullet for each candidate from a wooden bowl, which a clerk carries from box to box.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Siberian eparchy was established for the religious and moral needs of the settlers and for missionary work among the natives.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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From the end of that century the summons to attend these increasingly important synods was usually issued by the bishop of the capital of the state province (eparchy), who also presided over the assembly, especially in the East.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Today it is a small village, Akkhinos (Achinos), of 500 inhabitants, in the demos of Phalara and the eparchy of Phthiotis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
fernando commented on the word eparchy
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