The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ecclesiarch \Ec*cle"si*arch\, n. [LL. ecclesiarcha, fr. Gr. ? church + ? to rule: cf. F. eccl['e]siarque.] An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Wiktionary
n. An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
Usage examples of "ecclesiarch".
A Pilot named Vanda, flying an Ulama ship for the Ecclesiarch Kahn was on her way to Ten and would be contacting me on her arrival.
I am a Pilot of the Order, rated of the Third Class, seconded to the Ulama, serving with the Ecclesiarch Kahn, who has placed my Unit under your command.
I would have hoped that even such an overtolerant Ecclesiarch would have influenced Jan toward orthodoxy.
I watch the absurd spectacle of an Ecclesiarch, trained in theology, listening to a Patrol Captain expounding on the nature of God, the purpose of the universe, and the Arrow of Time.
Vanda is the only one of us who still treats him with the respectful admiration to which an Ecclesiarch is accustomed.
Dominating the western horizon was the black bulk of the Ecclesiarch Palace, its slab-like towers over two kilometres tall, their uplink masts stabbing high into the cold, cyan sky.
At the heart were the great palace of the Ecclesiarch and the Needle itself.
Gaulph Rabi, an ecclesiarch and pantologist, through Clissum and Perruquil, to Ivanello, a handsome young man who wore his rich garments with enviable flair and whose manner ranged that somewhat limited gamut between easy condescension and amused disdain.
Cugel sauntered forward, to find that the cabin formerly allotted to Nissifer had been taken by the ecclesiarch Gaulph Rabi, while Porraig the steward had settled into the carpenter shop.
A gift to the god from his faithful worshippers, the ecclesiarch explained, the temple commemorated the millennial year of his arrival to liberate the mother planet from the follies of the aging Creators and the demonic malevolence of their last Creation.
Kelt, which subsequently was driven away by Priestess Elfane and Ecclesiarch Manaolo.
Mangs, protesting, were engaged violently by Ecclesiarch Manaolo, who also began to attack Lord Hableyat.
A gift to the god from his faithful worshippers, the ecclesiarch explained, the temple commemorated the millennial year of his arrival to liberate the mother planet from the follies of the aging Creators and the demonic malevolence of their last Creation.
The Ecclesiarchs have always encouraged it on the highest levels—by which I mean the Twelve Popes.
Though, as Wolfgang says, the Ecclesiarchs long ago lost their grip on the leash.