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P0114600 (pā′trē-ärk′)n.1. A man who rules a family, clan, or tribe.2. Bible a. One of the antediluvian progenitors of the human race, from Adam to Noah.b. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of Jacob's 12 sons, the eponymous progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel.3. Used formerly as a title for the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria.4. Roman Catholic Church A bishop who holds the highest episcopal rank after the pope.5. Eastern Orthodox Church Any one of the bishops of the sees of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Moscow, and Jerusalem who has authority over other bishops.6. Judaism The head of the Sanhedrin in Syrian Palestine from about 180 bc to ad 429.7. Mormon Church A high dignitary of the priesthood empowered to invoke blessings.8. One who is regarded as the founder or original head of an enterprise, organization, or tradition.9. A very old, venerable man; an elder.10. The oldest member of a group: the patriarch of the herd.

[Middle English patriarche, from Old French, from Late Latin patriarcha, from Greek patriarkhēs : patriā, lineage (from patēr, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots) + -arkhēs, -arch.]

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(ˈpeɪtrɪˌɑːk) n1. (Anthropology & Ethnology) the male head of a tribe or family. Compare matriarch²2. a very old or venerable man3. (Bible) Old Testament any of a number of persons regarded as the fathers of the human race, divided into the antediluvian patriarchs, from Adam to Noah, and the postdiluvian, from Noah to Abraham4. (Bible) Old Testament any of the three ancestors of the Hebrew people: Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob5. (Bible) Old Testament any of Jacob's twelve sons, regarded as the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel6. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Early Church the bishop of one of several principal sees, esp those of Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria7. (Eastern Church (Greek & Russian Orthodox)) Eastern Orthodox Church the bishops of the four ancient principal sees of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, and also of Russia, Romania, and Serbia, the bishop of Constantinople (the ecumenical Patriarch) being highest in dignity among these8. (Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a. a title given to the popeb. a title given to a number of bishops, esp of the Uniat Churches, indicating their rank as immediately below that of the pope9. (Protestantism) Mormon Church another word for Evangelist²10. (Christian Churches, other) Eastern Christianity the head of the Coptic, Armenian, Syrian Jacobite, or Nestorian Churches, and of certain other non-Orthodox Churches in the East11. the oldest or most venerable member of a group, community, etc: the patriarch of steam engines. 12. a person regarded as the founder of a community, tradition, etc[C12: via Old French from Church Latin patriarcha] ˌpatriˈarchal adj ˌpatriˈarchally adv

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(ˈpeɪ triˌɑrk)

n. 1. the male head of a family or tribal line. 2. a person regarded as the father or founder of an order, class, etc. 3. any of the Biblical personages regarded as the fathers of the human race or any of the three great progenitors of the Israelites: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 4. any of the 12 sons of Jacob from whom the tribes of Israel were descended. 5. (in the early Christian church) any of the bishops of the sees of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, or Rome having authority over other bishops. 6. Gk. Orth. Ch. the head of any of the ancient sees of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, or Jerusalem. 7. the head of certain other churches. 8. Rom. Cath. Ch. a. the pope as patriarch of the West. b. any of certain bishops of the Eastern rites. 9. any of the high Mormon dignitaries who pronounce the blessing of the church. 10. one of the elders or leading older members of a community. 11. a venerable old man. [1175–1225; Middle English patriark(e) (< Old French) < Late Latin patriarcha < Late Greek patriárchēs high-ranking bishop, Greek: family head =patri(á) family, derivative of patḗr father + -archēs -arch] pa`tri•ar′chal, pa`tri•ar′chic, adj.

patriarch

the head of any of the ancient sees or the see of another principal city or national church.See also: Eastern Orthodoxy

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Noun	1.	patriarch - title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)spiritual leader - a leader in religious or sacred affairs
	2.	patriarch - the male head of family or tribe paterfamiliashead of household - the head of a household or family or tribeadult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	3.	patriarch - any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human raceantediluvian, antediluvian patriarch - any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian delugeforefather, sire, father - the founder of a family; "keep the faith of our forefathers"Jacob - (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')Simeon - (Old Testament) the 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel
	4.	patriarch - a man who is older and higher in rank than yourselfgraybeard, greybeard, old man, Methuselah - a man who is very old

patriarch

noun father, old man, elder, grandfather, sire, paterfamilias, greybeard the patriarch of the clan

patriarch

nounOne that creates, founds, or originates:architect, author, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder, inventor, maker, originator, parent.

Translations

家长族长高级主教

patriarch

(ˈpeitriaːk) noun1. the male head of a family or tribe. 家长，族长 2. especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church, a high-ranking bishop. 高级主教ˌpatriˈarchal adjective of, like, ruled by etc a patriarch or patriarchs. a patriarchal society/church. 家长或族长的，大主教的

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(pā`trēärk), in biblical tradition, one of the antediluvian progenitors of the race as given in Genesis (e.g., SethSeth,
in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, father of Enosh. In the chronology in the Gospel of St. Luke, Seth is an ancestor of Jesus. The Nag Hammadi codices preserve revelatory discourses ascribed to or allegedly emanating from Seth.
..... Click the link for more information. ) or one of the ancestors of the Jews (e.g., AbrahamAbraham
[according to the Book of Genesis, Heb.,=father of many nations] or Abram
[Heb.,=exalted father], in the Bible, progenitor of the Hebrews; in the Qur'an, ancestor of the Arabs.
..... Click the link for more information. , IsaacIsaac
[Heb.,=laughter], according to the patriarchal narratives of the Book of Genesis, Isaac was the only son of Abraham and Sara. He married Rebecca, and their sons were Esau and Jacob. Ishmael was his half-brother.
..... Click the link for more information. , JacobJacob
, in the Bible, ancestor of the Hebrews, the younger of Isaac and Rebecca's twin sons; the older was Esau. In exchange for a bowl of lentil soup, Jacob obtained Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, received the blessing that the dying Isaac had intended for his
..... Click the link for more information. , and, sometimes, the sons of Jacob). The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is the name of one of the PseudepigraphaPseudepigrapha
[Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 B.C. and c.A.D. 200, not found in the Bible or rabbinic writings.
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patriarch,

in Christian churches, title of certain exalted bishops, implying authority over a number of other bishops. There were originally three patriarchates: the West, held by the bishop of Rome (the pope; see papacypapacy
, office of the pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is pope by reason of being bishop of Rome and thus, according to Roman Catholic belief, successor in the see of Rome (the Holy See) to its first bishop, St. Peter.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Benedict XVI dropped the title in 2006), Alexandria, and Antioch. To these were added Constantinople (381) and Jerusalem (451). To the West belonged everything W of the Balkans and Cyrene, and Constantinople ruled most of the Byzantine Empire. Syria and Mesopotamia were under Antioch, Palestine under Jerusalem, and Egypt under Alexandria. The triumph of MonophysitismMonophysitism
[Gr.,=belief in a single nature], a heresy of the 5th and 6th cent., which grew out of a reaction against Nestorianism. It was anticipated by Apollinarianism and was continuous with the principles of Eutyches, whose doctrine had been rejected in 451 at Chalcedon
..... Click the link for more information. in Egypt and Syria (5th–6th cent.) created new churches, and since then the three Orthodox patriarchs in Asia have had small, minority jurisdictions; they abandoned (12th cent.) their local rites in favor of the Byzantine.

Besides the five ancient patriarchates there are a number of others. In communion with the pope there are 11: the Latin-rite patriarch of Jerusalem, who is bishop of local Latin-rite Catholics (the purely titular Latin-rite patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch were abolished in 1964); six who are heads of Eastern rites, having generally full patriarchal powers and not usually resident in their official sees, namely, Alexandria (Coptic rite), Antioch (three: Syrian rite, Melchite, and Maronite), Babylon (Chaldaean rite; see Nestorian ChurchNestorian Church,
officially the Assyrian Church of the East, Christian community of Iraq, Iran, and SW India. It represents the ancient church of Persia and is sometimes also called the East Syrian Church. It numbers about 175,000, including emigrants to the United States.
..... Click the link for more information. ), and Cilicia (Armenian rite); finally, in the Western Church the title patriarch is conferred, purely as an honor, on four prelates, the archbishop of Goa (patriarch of the East Indies), the archbishop of Lisbon, the archbishop of Venice, and the patriarch of the West Indies (normally Spanish). In the Russian Orthodox Church the czar set up (1580) a patriarch of Moscow; the title was abolished (1721) by Peter the Great and revived in 1917 (see Orthodox Eastern ChurchOrthodox Eastern Church,
community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe. Their members number some 300 million worldwide. The Orthodox agree doctrinally in accepting as ecumenical the first seven councils (see council, ecumenical) and in
..... Click the link for more information. ). The Orthodox archbishops of Belgrade and of Bucharest are called patriarchs. Besides all these there are a Coptic patriarch of Alexandria, a Jacobite patriarch of Antioch, a Nestorian patriarch, and four Armenian patriarchs (of Echmiadzin, Sis, Jerusalem, and Constantinople).

patriarch

See PATRIARCHY.

Patriarch

the highest title of the head of an autocephalous Orthodox Christian church in a number of countries.

The title of patriarch was established at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. After the Christian church separated into the Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1054, the title was retained in the Eastern hierarchy. In the Byzantine Empire, the Orthodox Church was headed by the four patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. When independent Slavic states arose in Bulgaria and Serbia, patriarchs were also created to head those churches.

In Russia, the first patriarch was elected at a council of the Russian ecclesiastical hierarchy in 1589. In the late 16th century and throughout the 17th, the Russian patriarchs were major feudal landowners who took an active part in the political life of the state. The patriarch’s power reached its apex under Nikon. A gradual subordination of the patriarch to secular authority culminated under Peter I. After the death of Patriarch Adrian in 1700, Peter appointed not a patriarch but a locum tenens of the patriarchal see. In 1721 he eliminated the position altogether. Management of church affairs was turned over to the Synod.

The title of patriarch was restored at a council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917–18. In addition to the Russian patriarch, there are patriarchs in Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Georgia (catholicos-patriarch), Serbia, Bulgaria, and Rumania. The heads of certain eparchies in the Catholic Church are also called patriarchs.

The patriarchs in Russia have included Iov (1589–1605), Ignatii (1605–06), Germogen (1606–12), Filaret (1619–33), Ioasaf I (1634–40), Iosif (1642–52), Nikon (1652–67), Ioasaf II (1667–72), Pitirim (1672–73), Ioakim (1674–90), Adrian (1690–1700), Stefan Iavorskii (1700–21, locum tenens), Tikhon (1917–25), Sergii (1925–27, deputy patriarch; 1927–43, locum tenens; 1943–44, patriarch), Aleksii (1945–70), and Pimen (from 1971).

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1. the male head of a tribe or family 2. Old Testament any of a number of persons regarded as the fathers of the human race, divided into the antediluvian patriarchs, from Adam to Noah, and the postdiluvian, from Noah to Abraham 3. Old Testament any of the three ancestors of the Hebrew people: Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob 4. Old Testament any of Jacob's twelve sons, regarded as the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel 5. Early Christian Church the bishop of one of several principal sees, esp those of Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria 6. Eastern Orthodox Church the bishops of the four ancient principal sees of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, and also of Russia, Romania, and Serbia, the bishop of Constantinople (the ecumenical Patriarch) being highest in dignity among these 7. RC Churcha. a title given to the pope b. a title given to a number of bishops, esp of the Uniat Churches, indicating their rank as immediately below that of the pope 8. Mormon Church another word for Evangelist9. Eastern Christianity the head of the Coptic, Armenian, Syrian Jacobite, or Nestorian Churches, and of certain other non-Orthodox Churches in the East

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noun father

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noun one that creates, founds, or originates

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noun title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

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noun the male head of family or tribe

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noun any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

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noun a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

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