stavropegion
English
Noun
stavropegion (plural stavropegia)
- Alternative form of stauropegion
- The Holy Synod discussed in particular and at length the ecclesiastical matter of Ukraine, in the presence of His Excellency Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon and His Grace Bishop Hilarion of Edmonton, Patriarchal Exarchs to Ukraine, and following extensive deliberations decreed: [...] [t]o reestablish, at this moment, the Stavropegion of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Kyiv, one of its many Stavropegia in Ukraine that existed there always. — (Communiqué from 11 October 2018 of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople).