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What does exarch mean?

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  1. (historical) In the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
  2. In the Eastern Christian Churches, the deputy of a patriarch, or a bishop who holds authority over other bishops without being a patriarch.
  3. In these same churches, a bishop appointed over a group of the faithful not yet large enough or organized enough to constitute an eparchy or diocese.
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A priest when elected pope by acclamation, he was the last pope to seek approval of his election from the imperial exarch in Ravenna.
More significant for the moment was Ignatiev's patronage of the campaign of the Bulgarian merchant colony at Constantinople to obtain a Bulgarian exarch.
They were discovered, and fled to Ravenna, where the exarch held his court.
The exarch is established at Ravenna, representing the Emperor of the East.
Hitherto fear of the Lombards had kept the popes faithful to the Byzantine emperor and to the exarch in Ravenna, but the situation changed.
Archaeosigillaria had an exarch actinostele with scalariform and reticulate tracheids.

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