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metochia

metochia is the plural of metochion.

Meaning of metochion

Noun

metochion (plural metochia)

  1. An ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition.
    • In April 1220 he bestowed the metochion Mileas, which shortly before had been recovered from an unnamed secular lord, upon the Church of Saint Praxedis in Rome.2011, Filip Van Tricht, The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228)

Questions about metochia

What is metochia the plural of?
Metochia is the plural of metochion.

Words near metochia in the dictionary

  1. METO
  2. Metoac
  3. metobelus
  4. metobromuron
  5. metocean
  6. metochia
  7. metochion
  8. metoclopramide
  9. metoclopramides
  10. metocurine
  11. metodichka

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