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Definition of Eparchies
1. eparchy [n] - See also: eparchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eparchies
Literary usage of Eparchies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Christian Councils: From the Original Documents by Karl Joseph von Hefele, William Robinson Clark, Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871)
"The word o/to/w? shows that the Synod places these eparchies in the same rank as
the sees of Alexandria and Antioch. • (7.) It is very true that the sixth ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"by the name of their respective eparchies. A description cf the physical ...
Several eparchies have lost more than one-half .if their numbers by death or ..."
3. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and by James Bell (1832)
"The country is to be divided into provinces or eparchies; and all the provinces
or districts which have taken up arms against the Turks, are to be accounted ..."
4. The Life and Times of S. Gregory the Illuminator, the Founder and Patron by Solomon Caesar Malan, Matthew, of Tokhat Matthew (1868)
"certain eparchies that belong to Persia, besides those that are included in the
Russian Empire. The Persian eparchies of the Armenian Church are only two, ..."
5. The Scottish Christian Herald (1836)
"The eparchies »re generally named after the pbi-c where the prelate resides, and
not after the province. Catharine II., by an ukaze of the 24th February ..."