eparchial
Eparchial is an adjective used in a number of Eastern Christian churches to denote things pertaining to an eparchy, the territorial jurisdiction overseen by a bishop. The noun form eparch refers to the bishop who governs an eparchy. The term and its related nouns are most common in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions, where the organizational unit equivalent to a diocese in the Latin Church is called an eparchy and its bishop an eparch.
An eparchy is the basic geographic and pastoral unit of governance. Its see, often a cathedral, serves
The term eparchial is used to describe matters connected with the eparchy as a whole—for example, eparchial
Usage spans both the Eastern Orthodox Churches and many Eastern Catholic Churches, including Ukrainian, Russian, Greek,