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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America;

2. a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan;

3. a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exarch \Ex"arch\, n. [L. exarchus, Gr. ? ? commander; ?,?, out + ? to lead, rule: cf. F. exarque.] A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch, who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exarch n 1: a bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America 2: a bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan 3: a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire