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plural eparchs
(historical, Ancient Greece) The governor or prefect of a province.
The ruler of an eparchy. examples
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy. quotations examples
An Orthodox eparch, or metropolitan bishop, was installed in Polatsk in 992.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 246