catholicos

American  

[kuh-thol-i-kuhs, -kos] / kəˈθɒl ɪ kəs, -ˌkɒs /

noun

plural

catholicoses, catholicoi

1. (often initial capital letter)

   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.

2. (in the early Christian church) the head of monasteries in the same city.

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Catholicos British  

/ kəˈθɒlɪkɒs /

noun

1. the patriarch of the Armenian Church

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Etymology

Origin of catholicos

1615–25; < Late Greek katholikós, noun use of Greek adj.; catholic

Example Sentences

Those who dwelt nearest to Baghdad met the catholicos in yearly synod; those farthest off sent their confession of faith to him every sixth year.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden

The dignity of the Persian catholicos was considerable; he might be compared with the Byzantine patriarchs, and the Church almost occupied the position of an established religion, related to the civil power.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden

Imago autem Christi non est occasio idololatriæ apud nos catholicos, quia non alium ob finem eam retinemus, quam ut nobis Christum salvatorem, et beneficia ejus representet.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

Quum tantis clamoribus propemodum extorti prodiissent, didicere quicumque negotium attigissent, Patres fuisse catholicos, id est, nostros.

From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund

Ioannes Ivellus antesignanus calvinianorum Angliae, catholicos ad Divi Pauli Londinensium incredibili iactantia lacessivit, invocatis per hypocrisim et imploratis Patribus, quicumque intra salutis annum sexcentesimum claruisset.

From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund