exarch's Usage Examples:

Caesarea was an important diocese, and its bishop was, ex officio, exarch of the great diocese of Pontus.

The first formed portion of the stern in all species of Selaginella which have been investigated possesses an exarch haplostele.

At its close the provinces of Italy were placed beneath Greek dukes, controlled by a governor-general, entitled exarch, who ruled in the Byzantine emperors name at Ravenna.

When the protoxylem strands are situated at the periphery of the stele, abutting on the pericycle, as in all roots, and many of the more primitive Pteridophyte stems, the stele is said to be exarch.

The territory round the town, from the southern border of the modern Venetia to the beginning of the Pentapolis at Rimini, was under his direct administration and formed in a limited sense the exarchate.

An exception should be made in the case of Georgia, which is governed by an "exarch," with three suffragans under him.

It afterwards belonged to the Greek exarchate of Ravenna.

In return for these honours Pippin, at the appeal of the pope, made two expeditions into Italy, in 754 and 756; and he became the veritable creator of the papal state by conferring on the pope the exarchate of Ravenna, which he had wrested from Aistulf, the king of the Lombards.

Bologna was only for a short while subject to the Lombards, remaining generally under the rule of the exarchate of Ravenna, until this in 756 was given by Pippin to the papacy.

An " exarch " means properly a superior metropolitan having several provinces under him.

Martin published the decrees of his Lateran synod in an encyclical, and Constans replied by enjoining his exarch to seize the pope and send him prisoner to Constantinople.

Synonyms:

viceroy, vicereine,

Antonyms:

husband,