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Ethnarch

noun
1.
The ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority.





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... vii. 65) people reverenced a transcendent majesty which had been left to the people of God as in some sense a compensation for the earthly dignity which had been lost. Under the rule of the Greeks the high priest became ethnarch and president of the synedrium; only through the pontificate was it possible for the Hasmonaeans to attain to power, but when they conjoined it with full-blown secular sovereignty, they created a dilemma to the ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen


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