catholicos
nounUK /kəˈθɒlɪkəs/
Etymology From Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós). Doublet of catholic.
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Christianity A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
- Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 252:
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