patriarchate
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪtriɑrkeɪt/
- Specialized
:
patriarcado
- The Moscow Patriarchate plays a significant role in overseeing religious practices in the region.
- Moscow Patriarchate
- Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Jerusalem Patriarchate
Examples
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The Custody and the patriarchate took differing views of these factors.
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The law does not envision an appellate system between the patriarchates, and there is no special mention of Rome in this context.
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The most important ones are the Jerusalem Patriarchate archives.
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The Moscow Patriarchate sees reunification as part of its bid for greater influence on the world stage.
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One especially important occasion was in 1920, when he visited the region in an attempt to smooth things between the patriarchate and Custody and to facilitate relations with the British.
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Indeed, the patriarchate, despite being theoretically responsible for all Latin Catholics in Palestine, struggled to establish its primary role.
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Relations between the two offices had been stormy ever since the reestablishment of the patriarchate in 1847.
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Communist authorities enlisted the Moscow Patriarchate in a new anti-Catholic and anti-Western campaign.
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A similar experience is expressed by Msgr. Rafiq Khoury, a Palestinian Catholic priest of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
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The consequences of this situation were regarded as very dangerous, given that the rivalry between the patriarchate and Custody seemed to favor the Greek and Armenian Orthodox churches and undermine the Latin rights to the sanctuaries.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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An office, rank, or group of senior church leaders in the Catholic Church
A group of church leaders who make official decisions
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Etymology
Patriarchate comes from the Greek parts patri- ('father') and -arch ('rule'), the same arch you see in monarch and archbishop. So a patriarchate is the office or territory where a church's patriarch has authority.