EXARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exarch mean? 

• EXARCH (noun)
  The noun EXARCH has 3 senses:

1. a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America

2. a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan

3. a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

  Familiarity information: EXARCH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exarch" is a kind of...):

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exarch" is a kind of...):

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exarch" is a kind of...):

vicereine; viceroy (governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign)