catholicosate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin catholicatus.
Noun
catholicosate (plural catholicosates)
- (rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos.
- 2015, Kamala Imranli-Lowe, “Reconstruction of the 'Armenian Homeland' Notion”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 51, number 4, DOI: , page 553:
- The liquidation of the Albanian Catholicosate was long sought by Armenian Catholicoses, especially by Simeon Erevantsi in the second half of the eighteenth century.
- 2022, Alexander Treiger, “From al-Biṭrīq to Ḥunayn: Melkite and Nestorian Translators in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad”, in Mediterranea, volume 7, DOI: , pages 147–148:
- Similarly to the Jacobites, the Melkites took advantage of the changed political situation and expanded their hierarchy eastward, establishing the "catholicosate of Romagyris".
Synonyms
- catholicate