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Noun: exarch (exarchs)  'ek,saa(r)k
  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

Derived forms: exarchs

Type of: bishop, vicereine, viceroy

Encyclopedia: Exarch