eparchy

/ˈɛpˌɑɹ.ki/noun
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1

A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon

2

A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)

3

An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.

4

In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.

5

In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

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