Usually means: Diocese in Eastern Orthodox Church.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word eparchy:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. eparchy: Merriam-Webster
  2. eparchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eparchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eparchy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eparchy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eparchy, eparchy: Wordnik
  7. eparchy: Wiktionary
  8. eparchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. eparchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Eparchy, eparchy: Dictionary.com
  11. Eparchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Eparchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. eparchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. eparchy: Rhymezone
  15. Eparchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. eparchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. eparchy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. eparchy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. eparchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. eparchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Eparchy: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

(Note: See eparchies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (eparchy)

noun:  (historical, Ancient Rome) A district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
noun:  (historical, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire) A provincial government or office headed by an eparch in the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire (akin to a prefecture governed by a prefect in the Latin-speaking Western Roman Empire)
noun:  (historical) An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
noun:  (Christianity) In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
noun:  (Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.

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