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Definition of "exarch" [ex•arch]

  • A bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church ranking immediately below a patriarch. (noun)
  • The ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire. (noun)
  • Botany Of or relating to a xylem whose early development is away from the center and toward the periphery. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "exarch" in a sentence
  • ""The title exarch is here applied to the primate of a group of provincial churches, as it had been used by Ibas, bishop of Edema, at his trial in"
  • "The two chief districts were the country about Ravenna, the exarchate, where the exarch was the centre of the opposition, and the Duchy of Rome, which embraced the lands of Roman Tuscany north of the Tiber and to the south the"
  • "In the ninth century every diocese (presumably the cenobites of every diocese) or district formed a sort of federation under the presidency of a hegumenos known as the exarch or archimandrite."