patriarchate
[pey-tree-ahr-kit, -keyt]
- the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
- a patriarchy.
Origin of patriarchate
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Contemporary Examples
Kirill represented the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches in the early 1970s.
Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.
Historical Examples
But we have not yet forgotten the habits and traditions of the patriarchate.
Concerning ChildrenCharlotte Perkins Gilman
The matriarchate disappeared and the patriarchate took its place.
Woman and SocialismAugust Bebel
The warden Shinsh had lost the Patriarchate and with it the spiritual headship of Zen.
Zen BuddhismArthur Waley
The ancient rule is that no bishop is eligible for the patriarchate.
Under a patriarchate the mother yields to the grandmother and the great-grandmother.
Oriental WomenEdward Bagby Pollard
patriarchate
- the office, jurisdiction, province, or residence of a patriarch
- a family or people under male domination or government
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