A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line.
1 The days of the spiritual domination of the Greek patriarchate were numbered.
2 Bishoprics, and even the patriarchate were sold to the highest bidder.
3 This is in accordance with the principles of the patriarchate system which prevails in Manóboland.
4 The development of the patriarchate calls for special notice.
5 This patriarchate had a hundred bishoprics in the fourth century and included thousands of black Christians.
6 Ascalon contained 153 Jews; Tiberias, the seat of learning, and of the kingly patriarchate , but fifty.
7 As the most northern German Metropolitan he aspired to set up a patriarchate in Northern Europe.
8 Saldanha had been just raised to the patriarchate .
9 The Moscow patriarchate denounced the Vatican's creation at the weekend of two full dioceses in Kazakhstan.
10 The relation of Gregory with the Church of Illyricum gives opportunity for mention of that anomalous patriarchate .
11 Jerusalem was also made an honorary patriarchate .
12 He had left the patriarchate vacant.
13 Cyrus, bishop of Phasis, a virulent Monothelite, was by Heraclius preferred to the patriarchate of Alexandria, in 629.
14 He found the Romish Church stronger than he had expected, having a Papal-Syrian patriarchate just established within the city.
15 Each child of us, though really born to the broad light of a democratic age, is reared in the patriarchate .
16 The patriarchate of Alexandria had a long and distinguished history, and from it had spread missions far into the south.
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