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patriarchate

/pey-tree-ahr-kit, -keyt/US // ˈpeɪ triˌɑr kɪt, -keɪt //UK // (ˈpeɪtrɪˌɑːkɪt) //

元老院,父权制,父权,父系

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
    • : a patriarchy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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