metochion
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek μετόχιον (metókhion).
Noun
editmetochion (plural metochia)
- 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.