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EXARCH (EEapxos, a chief See also: officers or See also: governors, both in secular and ecclesiastical matters
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Of these, the most important were the exarchs of See also: Ravenna (q.v.)
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In the ecclesiastical organization the exarch of a diocese (the word being here used of the See also: political division) was in the 4th and 5th centuries the same as primate
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This dignity was intermediate between the patriarchal and the metropolitan, the name patriarch being restricted after A.D
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451 to the chief bishops of the most important cities (see PATRIARCH)
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The title of Exarch was also formerly given in the Eastern See also: Church to a general or
See also: superior over several monasteries, and to certain ecclesiastics deputed by the patriarch of Constantinople to collect the tribute payable by the Church to the See also: Turkish See also: government
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In the See also: modern See also: Greek Church an exarch is a deputy, or See also: legate a latere, of the patriarch, whose office it is to visit the See also: clergy and churches in the provinces allotted to him
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The title of exarch has been See also: borne by the See also: head of the Bulgarian Church (see See also: BULGARIA), since in 1872 it repudiated the jurisdiction of the Greek patriarch of Constantinople
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