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Patriarchate

🔄 Synonyms of "Patriarchate"

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Word	Definition
patriarchynoun	A power structure in which men are dominant.

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Word	Definition
patriarchynoun	A power structure in which men are dominant.
patriarchnoun	(biblical) A male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
archdiocesenoun	(Christianity) A group of dioceses administered by an archbishop
patriarchal	Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.
catholicosnoun	(Christianity) A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
eparchynoun	(Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop.
fathernoun	A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
prothonotarynoun	A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts, (Canada) in Federal Court.
patristicsnoun	The study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers.
patristicismnoun	The mode of thought of the fathers of the early Christian church.
popenoun	(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
patricianshipnoun	The role or status of a patrician.
patriarchistnoun	One who supports the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
patristnoun	Someone versed in patristics.
patricianhoodnoun	The role or status of a patrician.
patripassianistnoun	Synonym of Patripassian.
patriciannoun	A person of high birth; a nobleman.
eparchatenoun	An eparchy, or diocese of a bishop.
holy synodnoun	In Orthodox Churches, the governing body composed of the metropolitan bishops and presided by the patriarch.
catholicosatenoun	(rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos.