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noun - title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
noun - the male head of family or tribe
noun - any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
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| men of the house |
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| Oct 12 2018 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Jan 26 2015 7 Little Words Daily Puzzle |
| Jan 26 2015 7 Little Words Daily Puzzle |
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| Plural form of patriarch. |
| the male head of a family or tribe. |
| The male head of a family or tribe. |
| Any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob. |
| A bishop of one of the most ancient Christian sees (Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and formerly Rome). |
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The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), and the Church of the East are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes). * The word is derived from Greek (patriarchs), meaning "chief or father of a family", a compound of (patria), meaning "family", and (archein), meaning "to rule".Originally, a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is termed patriarchy. Historically, a patriarch has often been the logical choice to act as ethnarch of the community identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed (such as Christians within the Ottoman Empire). The term developed an ecclesiastical meaning, within the Christian Church. The office and the ecclesiastical circumscription of a Christian patriarch is termed a patriarchate. * Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are |