catholicosate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin catholicatus.

Noun

catholicosate (plural catholicosates)

1. (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