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was expanded to include not only proper metropolitan provinces, but also the newly created honorary metropolitan sees that were no real provinces, and thus no different then simple bishoprics except in honorary titles and ranks. In spite of that, such honorary metropolitan sees also came to be called
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also gained momentum in ecclesiastical circles. In order to promote centralization, patriarchal authorities started to multiply the numbers of metropolitans by elevating local bishops to honorary metropolitan ranks without giving them any real metropolitan powers, and making them directly appointed
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until major administrative reforms that were undertaken between the 7th and 9th centuries, abolishing the old provincial system. In modern times, the term was also employed within administrative systems of some countries, like
317:(bishop of the provincial capital). Since civil provinces were called eparchies in Greek, the same term was used to define ecclesiastical provinces. Such use became customary, and metropolitan provinces came to be known as
238:. The term can be loosely translated as the rule over something (literally: an overlordship). The term had various meanings and multiple uses throughout history, mainly in politics and administration, starting from the
87:, in the same manner as a diocese in Western Churches. Historical development of eparchies in various Eastern Churches was marked by local distinctions that can be observed in modern ecclesiastical practices of the
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Individual eparchies of some
Eastern Catholic Churches may be suffragan to Latin Church metropolitans. For example, the
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can be called an eparch (equivalent to a diocesan of the Latin Church). Similarly, an archeparchy is equivalent to an
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Since it was commonly used as the main Greek designation for an administrative province of the Roman Empire, the term
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309:(325) confirmed (Canon IV) that all bishops of each civil province should be grouped in one
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Eparchies of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Επαρχίες Οικουμενικού Θρόνου)
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During the later medieval period, terminology started to shift, particularly within the
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Eparchie und Koinon in
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of the Latin Church and its bishop can be called an archeparch (equivalent to an
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Constantinople. As a consequence, the use of the word
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Throughout the late antiquity and the early medieval period, within
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Eparchies of the Greek
Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
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Eparchies of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
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Eparchies of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
467:
Eparchies of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antiochia
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1046:Map with all Dioceses of the Eastern Churches
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625:
522:Eparchies of the Albanian Orthodox Church
502:Eparchies of the Georgian Orthodox Church
492:Eparchies of the Romanian Orthodox Church
686:First Ecumenical Council (325): Canon IV
507:Eparchies of the Cypriot Orthodox Church
487:Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church
477:Eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church
615:
517:Eparchies of the Polish Orthodox Church
661:
649:
265:, the main administrative unit of the
158:
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392:Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy
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445:. In those who are non-Greek, term
979:. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag.
900:. Rome: Oriental Institute Press.
566:Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci
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67:. An eparchy is governed by an
27:Diocese in Eastern Christianity
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590:Eparchy (Roman province)
424:Georgian Orthodox Church
307:First Ecumenical Council
151:'overlordship',
59:that is equivalent to a
32:Eparchy (disambiguation)
1334:Greek words and phrases
846:Mason, Hugh J. (1974).
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600:Eparchy (modern Greece)
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