Exarch : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Exarch	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Exarch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exarch n a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exarch \Ex"arch\, n. [L. exarchus, Gr. [?] [?] commander; [?],[?], out + [?] to lead, rule: cf. F. exarque.] A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch, who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.