Petrine
Americanadjective
adjective
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New Testament of or relating to St Peter, his position of leadership, or the epistles, etc, attributed to him
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RC Church of or relating to the supremacy in the Church that the pope is regarded as having inherited from St Peter
the Petrine claims
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While he could still wear the white cassock of the papacy, his fisherman’s ring must be destroyed, as Benedict’s was in 2013, and his insignia must remove “all symbols of his Petrine jurisdiction.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023
I’ve also got a book called “Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s,” by Petrine Archer-Straw.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2020
When he resigned, Benedict cited his advanced age as the reason, saying he no longer had the strength for "an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry".
From BBC • May 2, 2013
For me, last Tuesday’s Mass of Inauguration of the Petrine Ministry was marked by its familiarity.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2013
His inferior, the bearer of the Petrine keys, dimpled behind him, rattling the wards vigorously to hide any tendency of the bottle of wine to make music of its own in his ample skirts.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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