Exarchate (Noun)
Meaning
A diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Malta and the other exarchates are in full communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
- The Ecumenical Patriarch has jurisdiction over the Greek Orthodox Exarchate of Patmos, a separate diocese.
- The Serbian Orthodox Exarchate of Central and Western Europe, currently an exarchate within the Serbian Orthodox Church, has a network of monasteries.
- It was designated as the Greek Orthodox Exarchate of Asia Minor in 1910.
- In 1872, the Bulgarian Apostolic Exarchate was founded to help sort out the internal problems within the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.