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catholicos

[ kuh-thol-i-kuh s, -kos ]
/ kəˈθɒl ɪ kəs, -ˌkɒs /
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noun, plural ca·thol·i·cos·es, ca·thol·i·coi [kuh-thol-i-koi] /kəˈθɒl ɪˌkɔɪ/.

(often initial capital letter) Eastern Church.
  1. any of the heads of certain autocephalous churches.
  2. (in some autocephalous churches) a primate subject to a patriarch and having authority over metropolitans.
(in the early Christian church) the head of monasteries in the same city.

Nearby words

catholicate, catholicism, catholicity, catholicize, catholicon, catholicos, catholicus, cathouse, cathy, catilinarian, catiline
Also catholicus, katholikos.

Origin of catholicos

1615–25; < Late Greek katholikós, noun use of Greek adj.; see catholic
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Examples from the Web for catholicos

  • Nec catholicos a libero religionis exercitio impediri debere, neque cuiquam ex his licere Lutheranismum amplecti.

    History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV|J. H. Merle D'Aubign

  • Verissima relacion en que se da cuenta en el estado en que estan los Catholicos de Inglaterra, ete Sevilla .

    Henrietta Maria|Henrietta Haynes

  • Omnes Episcopi et theologi responderunt Catholicos hoc non tenere.

    The History of Freedom|John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

  • And the priest of the Christians is called "Catholicos" in the Greek tongue, because he presides alone over the whole region.

    History of the Wars, Books I and II (of 8)|Procopius

British Dictionary definitions for catholicos

Catholicos

/ (kəˈθɒlɪkɒs) /

noun

the patriarch of the Armenian Church

Word Origin for Catholicos

C17: from Greek katholikos; see catholic
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