eparchy

  1. Noun.  one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon.
  2. Noun.  one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece.
  3. Noun.  in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
  4. Noun.  in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop.

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