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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin catholicatus.
Noun
catholicosate (plural catholicosates)
- (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".
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