Definitions for patriarchates

patriarchates pa·tri·arch·ate

Spelling: [pey-tree-ahr-kit, -keyt]
IPA: /ˈpeɪ triˌɑr kɪt, -keɪt/

Patriarchates is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1516 anagrams from letters in patriarchates (aaacehiprrstt).

Definitions for patriarchates

noun

  1. the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
  2. a patriarchy.

Origin of patriarchates

1610-20; Medieval Latin patriarchātus, equivalent to Late Latin patriarch(a) (see patriarch) + Latin -ātus -ate

Examples for patriarchates

Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the Orthodox Church of the Moscow patriarchate in Ukraine.

The ancient rule is that no bishop is eligible for the patriarchate.

Kirill represented the Moscow patriarchate at the World Council of Churches in the early 1970s.

Bishoprics, and even the patriarchate were sold to the highest bidder.

The warden Shinsh had lost the patriarchate and with it the spiritual headship of Zen.

Under a patriarchate the mother yields to the grandmother and the great-grandmother.

The matriarchate disappeared and the patriarchate took its place.

Under a show of Christianity existed the patriarchate of Asia alone.

He introduced the contemplative school and also the institution of the patriarchate, which for a time had some importance.

But we have not yet forgotten the habits and traditions of the patriarchate.

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