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