Definitions for catholicos

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catholicos ca·thol·i·cos

Spelling: [kuh-thol-i-kuh s, -kos]

IPA: /kəˈθɒl ɪ kəs, -ˌkɒs/

Catholicos is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 572 anagrams from letters in catholicos (acchiloost).

Definitions for catholicos

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) Eastern Church. any of the heads of certain autocephalous churches. (in some autocephalous churches) a primate subject to a patriarch and having authority over metropolitans.
2. (in the early Christian church) the head of monasteries in the same city.

Origin of catholicos

1615-25; Late Greek katholikós, noun use of Greek adj.; see catholic

Examples for catholicos

Omnes Episcopi et theologi responderunt catholicos hoc non tenere.

Nec catholicos a libero religionis exercitio impediri debere, neque cuiquam ex his licere Lutheranismum amplecti.

Verissima relacion en que se da cuenta en el estado en que estan los catholicos de Inglaterra, ete Sevilla .

And the priest of the Christians is called "catholicos" in the Greek tongue, because he presides alone over the whole region.