catholicos

See also: cathólicos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈθɒlɪkəs/

Noun

catholicos (plural catholicoses or catholicoi)

1. (Christianity) A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 252:

     Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.

Translations

high-ranking bishop or patriarch

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܲܬܘܿܠܝܼܩܵܐ (qatolíqā), ܐܲܒ݂ܵܐ ܕܐܲܒ݂ܵܗܵܬܹ̈ܐ (ʾaḇā d-ʾaḇāhātā), ܡܰܦ̮ܪܝܳܢܳܐ (map̄ryānā)

• Armenian: կաթողիկոս (katʻoġikos)

  Old Armenian: կաթողիկոս (katʻołikos)

• Arabic: جَاثليق (jaṯlīq)
• Dutch: katholikos
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡托利科斯 (kǎtuōlìkēsī)

• Finnish: katolikos (fi)
• French: catholicos (fr) m
• Georgian: კათოლიკოსი (ḳatoliḳosi)
• German: Katholikos m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: קתוליקוס m (katolikos)
• Hungarian: katolikosz
• Italian: catholicos m
• Japanese: カトリコス (katorikosu)
• Korean: 가톨리코스 (gatollikoseu)
• Latin: catholicus (la) m
• Persian: جاثلیق (fa) (jâsoliq)
• Polish: katolikos
• Portuguese: católico (pt)
• Russian: католико́с (ru) m (katolikós)
• Spanish: catolicós m
• Turkish: katolikos
• Ukrainian: католико́с m (katolykós)

See also

• maphrian

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) catholicōs

1. accusative masculine plural of catholicus