patriarchates
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patriarchates noun
- The term of office of a Christian patriarch.“The patriarchate of Pope John Paul II as Patriarch of the West was more than 25 years.”
- The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.“The Patriarchate of Constantinople has primacy over the whole of the Orthodox world.”
- The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.“The Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem is, by modern standards, a very cramped space.”
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