exarch

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America
noun a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan
noun a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin exarchus.

Italy was restored to the Empire, and was governed by an officer from Constantinople, who lived at Ravenna, and was called the Exarch. — Young Folks' History of Rome, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Each line is thrice repeated, and then follows the refrain Leljo! Then the dancers hold one another by the belt and dance in a half-circle, led by an exarch. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
Saint Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the supremacy of the Emperor. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

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