Vladyka

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Vladyka (Vladika, Russian: владыка, calque from ηγεμον) is honorific appeal to Orthodox bishop in the Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonain tradition.

Vladyko is the vocative form, used when addressing the bishop directly; Vladyka is the nominative form, used when referring to a bishop in the third person.

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