Noun(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(4) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox churches in North America
Noun(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(4) a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox churches in North America
(1) Until the beginning of the eighth century, the emperor maintained strict control over his remaining Italian possessions through the exarch (or governor, usually a Greek) and an elaborate hierarchy of officials.(2) This was the case, for example, with the negotiations conducted with King Agilulf which met with the displeasure of Romanus the exarch in Ravenna, the senior representative of imperial power in Italy.(3) More significant for the moment was Ignatiev's patronage of the campaign of the Bulgarian merchant colony at Constantinople to obtain a Bulgarian exarch .(4) He devotedly served the Byzantine empire as the u2018holy commonwealthu2019, but sometimes acted independently of emperor and exarchs .
