Words Like EPARCHY

We have put together a list of words that are similar to EPARCHY.

6 Alternative Words Similar to eparchy

1 Exarchate Noun      Synonym
2 Bishopric Noun      Synonym Words Like Bishopric
3 Diocese Noun      Synonym Words Like Diocese
4 Episcopate Noun      Synonym Words Like Episcopate
5 Province Noun      Synonym Words Like Province
6 State Noun      Synonym Words Like State

8 definitions of eparchy

1 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.
2 In the early church and in the Gr. Ch., an ecclesiastical division answering to the civil province.
3 one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
4 one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
5 in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
6 in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop
7 a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
8 a province in ancient Greece
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