Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the later Roman empire, a receiver-general or deputy-receiver in a civil diocese.
- noun Eccles., in Oriental countries: A primate having under him metropolitans, but himself subject to a patriarch.
- noun The head of an independent or schismatic communion.
- noun Also called
catholic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.
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- noun Christianity A
bishop orpatriarch of certain states or regions of the ancient Near East; now specifically, thepatriarch of theArmenian Apostolic Church .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Greeks, etc. etc. - everybody has his own sui iuris church, with its catholicos/patriarch/metropolitan/whatever, plenty of bishops ordinaries on the same territory.
Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France 2009
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Timothy I of Baghdad, catholicos of the East Syrian Church, 780-823: still a valuable model.
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As his vicar, the metropolitan of the twin-cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon (on either side of the Tigris, north-east of Babylon) bore the title of catholicos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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He lived twelve years after his deposition, and during that period no catholicos was appointed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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This patriarch is the person responsible to the Porte for his race, has the same privileges as his Orthodox rival, and now uses the jurisdiction over all Turkish Armeniansthat formerly belonged to the catholicos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The first is the Patriarch of Etchmiadzin, who bears as a special title that of catholicos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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On being appointed catholicos he established a school at Seleucia, which soon became a great centre of Nestorian scholarship.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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When Babaeus, himself a Nestorian, became catholicos, in 498, there were practically no more Catholics in those parts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Nestorian catholicos, Subarjesus, sent to Pope Gregory IX an orthodox profession of faith and was admitted to union with the Church of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Antioch waived his right of ordaining the catholicos of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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