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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EXARCH (EEapxos, a See also:chief See also:person or See also:leader)  , a See also:title that has been conferred at different periods on certain See also:chief See also:officers or See also:governors, both in See also:secular and ecclesiastical matters . Of these, the most important were the exarchs of See also:Ravenna (q.v.) . In the ecclesiastical organization the See also:exarch of a See also:diocese (the word being here used of the See also:political See also:division) was in the 4th and 5th centuries the same as See also:primate . This dignity was intermediate between the patriarchal and the See also:metropolitan, the name See also: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 to a See also:general or See also:superior over several monasteries, and to certain ecclesiastics deputed by the patriarch of See also:Constantinople to collect the See also:tribute payable by the Church to the See also:Turkish See also:government . In the See also:modern See also:Greek Church an exarch is a See also:deputy, or See also:legate a latere, of the patriarch, whose See also:office it is to visit the See also:clergy and churches in the provinces allotted to him . 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 See also:jurisdiction of the Greek patriarch of Constantinople .

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