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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exarch /ˈɛksɑːk/

▶noun

1 (in the Orthodox Church) a bishop lower in rank than a patriarch and having jurisdiction wider than the metropolitan of a diocese.

2 historical a governor of a distant province under the Byzantine emperors.

– origin C16: via eccles. L. from Gk exarkhos, from ex- ‘out of’ + arkhos ‘ruler’.

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