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'''Vladyka''' ('''Vladika''', {{lang-ru|владыка}}, calque from ''ηγεμον'') is honorific appeal to Orthodox [[bishop]] in the Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonain [[tradition]].
In [[Church Slavonic]], '''Vladyko''' (Slavonic: владыко) is the vocative form, used when addressing the bishop directly; '''Vladyka''' (Slavonic: владыка) is the nominative form, used when referring to a bishop in the third person.
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