See also:

• EXARCH (EEapxos, a chief person or leader)

EXARCH (EEapxos, a See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person or See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader)  , a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title that has been conferred at different periods on certain See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• OFFICERS

officers or See also:

• GOVERNORS

governors, both in See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular and ecclesiastical matters . Of these, the most important were the exarchs of See also:

• RAVENNA
• RAVENNA, EXARCHATE OF

Ravenna (q.v.) . In the ecclesiastical organization the See also:

• EXARCH (EEapxos, a chief person or leader)

exarch of a See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese (the word being here used of the See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division) was in the 4th and 5th centuries the same as See also:

• PRIMATE (from Low Lat. primas=one who held the first place, primas partes)

primate . This dignity was intermediate between the patriarchal and the See also:

• METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

metropolitan, the name See also:

• PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch being restricted after A.D . 451 to the chief bishops of the most important cities (see PATRIARCH) . The title of Exarch was also formerly given in the Eastern See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church to a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general or See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior over several monasteries, and to certain ecclesiastics deputed by the patriarch of See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople to collect the See also:

• TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute payable by the Church to the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . In the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Church an exarch is a See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy, or See also:

• LEGATE (Lat. legatus, past part. of legare, to send as deputy)
• LEGATE, BARTHOLOMEW (c. 1575-1612)

legate a latere, of the patriarch, whose See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office it is to visit the See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy and churches in the provinces allotted to him . The title of exarch has been See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne by the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the Bulgarian Church (see See also:

• BULGARIA
• BULGARIA, EASTERN

BULGARIA), since in 1872 it repudiated the See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction of the Greek patriarch of Constantinople .