Catholicos
//kəˈθɒlɪkəs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
"Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled."
- 2 the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches wordnet
Example
More examples"Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós). Doublet of catholic.
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