Citations:kyriarchy

English citations of kyriarchy

1. A government run by the nobility.

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   • 1920, Louis Nanassy, The Living Church: A Weekly Record of the News, the Work and the Thought of the Church, volume 64, Milwaukee, Wis.: Morehouse-Gorham Co., →OCLC, page 697:

     Another link between the Anglican and Hungarian Communions was Bishop Sinai of Debreczen. In 1756 he went to the theological school of Oxford. After his return to Hungary he maintained that the Church ought to be governed exclusively by the clergy without the assistance of laymen. His views were shared by the clergy and Sinai became bishop. In the fight between the hierarchy (government of the clergy) and kyriarchy (government by the lords and nobles), he was the leader of […]