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Patriarchate

noun

The jurisdiction of a patriarch.

A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line. Synonym: patriarchy.

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"Patriarchate" Quotes from Famous Books

... bears date 1145. Subsequent charters show that the abbey of Rozel was in possession, in the thirteenth century, of a sort of patriarchate over all the institutions of the order of Saint Benedict that were then in existence in the province of Normandy. A general chapter of the order was held there every year, presided over by the Abbot of Rozel, and at which some ten or a dozen other convents were represented ...

— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet

... Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox-Kiev Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic ...

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Talmuds were compiled was a season of comparative peace for the Jews. From the death of Rabbi Judah the Holy until Constantine ascended the throne the schools in Tiberias were unmolested. Judah was succeeded in the Patriarchate by Gamaliel; and he in turn gave way to Judah the second. Being inferior in learning to some of his own Rabbis, the splendor of his Patriarchate was eclipsed by the superior talents of Simon Ben Laches and ...

— Hebrew Literature

... to give up his Bishopric with its heavy burdens and retire into private life, bringing forward as an example St. Gregory of Nazianzen, surnamed the Theologian, the oracle of his time, who gave up the charge of three Bishoprics, Sozima, Nazianzen, and the Patriarchate of Constantinople, that he might go and end his days In rural life, on his paternal estate ...

— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

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