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Patriarchship :: Patriarchship (n.) A patriarchate.

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests..

Patriarchy :: Patriarchy (n.) The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

Teraphim :: Teraphim (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.

Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Noah :: Noah (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge..

Jacob :: "Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel..

Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church..

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch..

Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..

Patriciate :: Patriciate (n.) The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch..

Autocephalous :: Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches..

Ancient :: Ancient (n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.

Protonotary :: Protonotary (n.) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.

Patriarchy :: Patriarchy (n.) Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch..

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