Metochion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metochion is a noun meaning An ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition.
Meaning
An ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition.
Example Sentences
In April 1220 he bestowed the metochion Mileas, which shortly before had been recovered from an unnamed secular lord, upon the Church of Saint Praxedis in Rome.
Word Forms
- metochia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metropolis, ktetory, metropolitancy, ecclesiarch, eparchy, protosyncellus.
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