eparch's Usage Examples:

The modern town of Megara is situated on two low hills which formed part of the ancient site; it is the chief town of the eparchy of Megaris; pop.

In Russia this usually lies flat, only certain metropolitans, and by prescription the bishops of the eparchy of Kiev, having the right to have the cross upright (see fig.

of Tenos; it forms an eparchy in the modern kingdom of Greece.

It forms an eparchy of the nomos of Cephalonia in the kingdom of Greece, and its population, which was 9873 in 1870, is now about 13,000.

The area of his administration was called an eparchy (E7rapXia).

Oliaros), an island of the kingdom of Greece, in the modern eparchy of Naxos, separated by a strait (about 12 m.

The Australian eparchy and the Canado-American Eparchy comprise 44 churches and 2 monasteries.

Zea or Tzia), an island in the Aegean Sea, belonging to the group of the Cyclades and the eparchy of Syra, 14 m.

The island forms part of the modern nomos of Attica and Boeotia, of which it forms an eparchy.

There are 5 nomoi or prefectures (formerly sanjaks) each under a prefect (voyapxos), and 23 eparchies (formerly kazas) each under a sub-prefect (g irapxos).

" Eparch" and "eparchy" are also used in the Russian Orthodox Church for a bishop and his diocese respectively.