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What does eparchy mean?

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Noun
  1. one of the districts of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
  2. one of the administrative sub-provincial units of post-Ottoman independent Greece
  3. in pre-schism Christian Church, name for a province under the supervision of the metropolitan
  4. in Eastern Christendom, diocese of a bishop
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It is the first report card on how each U.S. diocese or eparchy is carrying out the bishops' 2002 Charter.
At the end of November, the clergy from the northern Vratsa Eparchy voiced outrage against the Bulgarian Holy Synod over not receiving salaries and benefits.
I'm a bit surprised that this stuff is tolerated in a Byzantine rite eparchy.
In an eparchy, the communion of the clergy, consecrated persons and the laity is centred around the bishop.
Ivan Rilski, of the Bulgarian eparchy in Shishli because the Iron Church can no longer accommodate all the worshipers.
In Russia, an eparchy is the diocese or arch-diocese of a bishop or archbishop of the Greek Church.

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