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Eparchy

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Eparchy 

(or diocese), a territorial unit of ecclesiastic administration in the Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican churches, headed by a bishop. In Kievan Rus’ the division into eparchies was brought about under Grand Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich in the tenth century, at which time they numbered not more than eight. Subsequently the division of Russia into eparchies corresponded roughly to the administrative division into provinces. By the early 19th century Russia had 36 independent eparchies, each headed by an eparchial bishop. At the present time the boundaries of the eparchies—where they exist—roughly correspond to the administrative division of the USSR into oblasts and republics.



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The new patriarch was born in Syria in 1944, but from 1986 until his election as patriarch, served at the eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance in Newark, New Jersey.
He was a former member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council of Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton and received the Cross of Jerusalem by the Patriarch Maximos in recognition of his service.
Two dioceses found not in compliance in 2005--Baker, Oregon and the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark--refused to participate in the 2006 audit.
 
 
 
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