Exarch (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. Eastern Church.
    • a patriarch's deputy.
    • a title originally applied to a patriarch but later applied only to a bishop ranking below a patriarch and above a metropolitan.
  2. the ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.
adjective Botany.
  1. (of a primary xylem or root) developing from the center; having the youngest cells closest to the core.
noun
  1. the head of certain autonomous Orthodox Christian Churches, such as that of Bulgaria and Cyprus
  2. any of certain Eastern Orthodox bishops, lower in rank than a patriarch but higher than a metropolitan
  3. the governor of a province in the Byzantine Empire
adjective
  1. (of a xylem strand) having the first-formed xylem external to that formed later
Exarch (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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