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catholicoi

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ca⋅thol⋅i⋅cos

[kuh-thol-i-kuhs, -kos]
–noun, plural -cos⋅es, -coi [-koi] .
1. (often initial capital letter) Eastern Church.
a. any of the heads of certain autocephalous churches.
b. (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.


Origin:
1615–25; < LGk katholikós, n. use of Gk adj.; see catholic
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