Exarchate

Word EXARCHATE
Character 9
Hyphenation ex ar chate
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Definitions and meanings of "Exarchate"

What do we mean by exarchate?

The province or area of an exarch

Ex·arch /ˈeksärk/ noun noun: exarch; plural noun: exarchs 1. (in the Orthodox Church) a bishop lower in rank than a patriarch and having jurisdiction wider than the metropolitan of a diocese. 2. HISTORICAL a governor of a distant province under the Byzantine emperors. Urban Dictionary

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The word "exarchate" in example sentences

The opposition of the Bulgarians led, as we have already seen, to the establishment in 1870 of the exarchate, that is, of an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church with the exarch at its head. ❋ Jacob Gould Schurman (1898)

I note that an exarchate is the Eastern Rite parallel to the apostolic administration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Roman bishops many lands of the exarchate, which was designated the ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pepin the usurper gave, or was able to give, the exarchate of ❋ Unknown (2007)

When Pope Stephen II. produced a letter from heaven, written in the hand of St. Peter, to Pepin, to complain of the grievances of the king of the Lombards, Astolphus, St. Peter does not mention in his letter that Pepin had made a present of the exarchate of ❋ Unknown (2007)

Placentia had been ceded to the holy see as a dependency of the exarchate, asserts that the Greek emperors were justly despoiled of their rights because they had excited the people against God. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After the exarchate was destroyed by the Lombards, the Lombard kings were desirous of becoming masters also of the city of Rome; nothing could certainly be more natural. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At a time when the court of Rome believed itself deficient in titles, it pretended that Charlemagne had confirmed the donation of the exarchate, and that he added to it Sicily, Venice, Benevento, ❋ Unknown (2007)

That they might be led to respect the Roman name, he ordered all that part of Italy adjoining to them, which had been under the exarchate of Ravenna, to be called Romagna. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The pope at Rome (Gregory II) likewise declared against the emperor's iconoclasm, and the population of the exarchate of Ravenna rose in revolt and made an alliance with the Lombards. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Pepin marched into Italy, defeated the Lombards, and required them to hand over the exarchate and Pentapolis to the pope. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Porte established the Bulgarian exarchate, a national branch of the Orthodox Church. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Languedoc; subdued Lombardy; conferred on pope Adrian the exarchate of ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

By a journey to Pavia, he obtained also of Luitprand, though with some difficulty, peace for the territory of Ravenna, and the restitution of the places which he had taken from the exarchate. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Italy, suppressed the Lombard kingdom, united it with his own, and by new gifts added the greater part of the exarchate to the papal possessions. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Ravenna, Decius (584), to succour Rome, but was told that he was unable to protect the exarchate, still less Rome. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

With the exarchate it passed under papal authority. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

His troops ravaged the exarchate, and he himself marched south to bring to subjection his vassals, the Dukes of Spoleto and ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

With all the Orthodox churches, except the Bulgarian exarchate and the Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch -- both of them considered schismatic for substituting a native episcopate to a Greek one -- the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

After the treatment which some of his predecessors in the exarchate had meted out to the popes, the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Did you know that after [Justinian] reconquered Italy the exarch ruled from [Ravenna], not [Rome]? ❋ Zettic (2020)

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