单词 | eparchy |
释义 | eparchyn. A district or province under the government of an eparch. 1. One of the subdivisions of the modern kingdom of Greece; a division of a nomarchy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in modern Greece eparchy1838 nomarchy1863 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 433/2 Deputies from the communes assemble at the chief town of the eparchy. c1850 Nat. Encycl. I. 839 It forms part of the eparchy of Naxos. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 85 [article Greece] The [13] nomarchies are sub-divided into 59 eparchies. 2. In the Russian (Greek) Church: A diocese. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [noun] > see of > Orthodox eparchy1796 eparchate1884 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 87 Bishops..preside over dioceses called Eparchies. 1806 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 3) I. ii. iii. 371 It [sc. a statistical work on Russia] contains all the eparchies except Bruzlaw. 1862 J. M. Neale Ess. Liturgiol. (1867) 302 All the sees are divided into eparchies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1796 |
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