metochion

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek μετόχιον (metókhion).

Noun

metochion (plural metochia)

  1. An ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition.
    • 2011, Filip Van Tricht, The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228):
      In April 1220 he bestowed the metochion Mileas, which shortly before had been recovered from an unnamed secular lord, upon the Church of Saint Praxedis in Rome.

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