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The phrase '''eis zoarkeian''' was used in the [[Church of Constantinople]] during the times of the [[Ottoman empire]] to refer to a position of retirement for [[patriarch]]s who had been deposed. An offer was made to the [[deposition|deposed]] patriarch of a [[metropolitan]]'s throne of an active ecclesiastical province from which the incumbent received the salary defined by ecclesiastical law without his being obliged to be present at the [[see]] nor perform his duties as metropolitan, that is he is without pastoral obligations. The hierarch awarded the title ‘eis zoarkeian’ (as a life support) was not a [[titular bishop]].

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*[http://asiaminor.ehw.gr/forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=7793   eis zoarkeian]

[[Category:Canon Law]]