patriarchate

[ pey-tree-ahr-kit, -keyt ]

noun

1. the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
2. a patriarchy.

patriarchate

/ ˈpeɪtrɪˌɑːkɪt /

noun

1. the office, jurisdiction, province, or residence of a patriarch
2. a family or people under male domination or government

Word History and Origins

Origin of patriarchate¹

1610–20; < Medieval Latin patriarchātus, equivalent to Late Latin patriarch ( a ) ( patriarch ) + Latin -ātus -ate ³

Example Sentences

Kirill represented the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches in the early 1970s.

From The Daily Beast

Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.

From The Daily Beast

The patriarchate subsequently passed to Oviedo, who was the only one to reach the country.

From Project Gutenberg

He divided the history of society into four great epochs—savagery, barbarism, the patriarchate, and civilization.

From Project Gutenberg

He soon succeeded to the patriarchate, which gave him civil as well as ecclesiastical powers.

From Project Gutenberg

Their principal quarrel is with the Greek clergy foisted upon them by the Patriarchate here.

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Peter I. abolished the patriarchate, introduced his own classes and reforms, and made himself head of the church.

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