Ethnarch

Quick meaning: Ethnarch is a noun meaning A leader of an ethnic community, especially a Jewish or (in the Ottoman Empire) Eastern Orthodox leader having political as well as spiritual authority.

Meaning

A leader of an ethnic community, especially a Jewish or (in the Ottoman Empire) Eastern Orthodox leader having political as well as spiritual authority.

More Meanings

1. (historical) The governor of a Jewish province under the Roman Empire.

Example Sentences

In the course of the struggle with the unfortunate ethnarch, the nobles had found it expedient to attach themselves to Rome.

By the seventeenth century the archbishop became recognized as the ethnarch (ethnic political leader) of the Greek Cypriot community.

In fact, from a worldly perspective, sages were petty clerks, employees of the ethnarch of their ethnic group. The ethnarch may have treated sages with […]

But the Ethnarch, by tradition and long-established practice that had begun under the Ottomans, was more than a spiritual leader. He was expected to act as the spokesman, defender and protector of his flock.

Word Forms

• ethnarchs

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