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

Patriarchism :: Patriarchism (n.) Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family..

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

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.

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

Ical :: ical (a.) Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

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

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

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses..

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..

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..

Abuna :: Abuna (n.) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church..

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3..

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.

Eudoxian :: Eudoxian (n.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius..

Patriarchship :: Patriarchship (n.) A patriarchate.

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

Noachian :: Noachian (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time..

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

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