Associations to the word «Eparchy»

Wiktionary

EPARCHY, noun. One of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
EPARCHY, noun. One of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
EPARCHY, noun. In pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
EPARCHY, noun. In Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop

Dictionary definition

EPARCHY, noun. A province in ancient Greece.
EPARCHY, noun. A diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats