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Example sentences for "patriarch"

Lexicographically close words:
patrem; patri; patria; patriae; patriam; patriarchal; patriarchate; patriarchates; patriarchs; patribus
  1. While sorrows thus his patriarch pride control, Hesper reproving sooths his tender soul: Father of this new world, thy tears give o'er, Let virtue grieve and heaven be blamed no more.

  2. The Patriarch look'd; and every frontier height Pours down the swarthy nations to the fight.

  3. A high forehead gave an intellectual cast to a countenance habitually calm and commanding, and to which long flowing silver locks imparted the look of a patriarch ruler.

  4. Like good old Boone, The patriarch hunter, in the forest wilds I've found that God supplied, and healed, and blessed.

  5. In 1642 a second council was held under the Patriarch Parthenius, who was very hostile both to Rome and to Catholics, which confirmed the previous condemnation of Cyril.

  6. They feared that their dear old friend, the patriarch of the lay-brothers, was losing his reason.

  7. The patriarch refutes the Protestant doctrines with great ability and clearness, and concludes by requesting the professors of Tuebingen to trouble him no longer and to send him no more letters.

  8. They were not to be discouraged by a trifle like this; but write what they would, the patriarch made them no further reply.

  9. It was he who carried on the negotiations between the university of Tuebingen and the Patriarch Jeremias.

  10. It seems the patriarch was not to be caught by these plausible professions, for he made no reply.

  11. Then Mazarin came forward with a missal in his hand, upon which Philip on his knees swore to keep the terms of the peace, and the Patriarch of the Indies administered a similar oath to Louis.

  12. I, being a western King, would go with the Patriarch of the West.

  13. The King with all his Court attended the Royal Chapel for the Te Deum, pontifically celebrated by the Patriarch and Cardinal Zapata.

  14. He was archdeacon of Carthage, when, in 388, he was promoted to the archiepiscopal dignity of that see, to which was annexed a jurisdiction little inferior to that of a patriarch over all the metropolitans of the different provinces of Africa.

  15. This made Theophilus, the busy patriarch of Alexandria, cry out when he lay on his death-bed in 312: “Happy Arsenius!

  16. The emperor Michael dying in 1283, his son Andronicus renewed the schism, and restored the deposed patriarch Joseph.

  17. The metropolitan of Moscow was declared patriarch of all the Russian schismatics by Jeremy, patriarch of Constantinople in 1588, and was acknowledged in that character by the other Oriental patriarchs.

  18. The young patriarch fell into evil courses, and employed magical arts to seduce a Christian woman; but the sign of the cross made his charms of no effect.

  19. Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, came one day in company with a certain great officer and others to visit him, and begged he would entertain them on some spiritual subject for the good of their souls.

  20. That he preached there is constantly affirmed by the tradition of that church, mentioned by St. Isidore, the Breviary of Toledo, the Arabic books of Anastasius patriarch of Antioch, concerning the Passions of the martyrs and others.

  21. The new patriarch distinguished himself in that venerable assembly by his zeal against Arianism.

  22. Their patriarch is styled of Antioch, but seldom comes west of Mardin.

  23. His work, however, endured, and in the middle ages the Jacobite hierarchy numbered 150 archbishops and bishops under a patriarch and his maphrian.

  24. Mr. Brown, but hardly were the words from his mouth when there was a rushing sound, and before I could interfere, or raise my voice in warning, the old patriarch had charged past me.

  25. For a few minutes we stood looking at each other in silence, and then the old patriarch wagged his tail slowly, and moved towards his wives, with rather a crestfallen appearance.

  26. I suspect that when the Arab Patriarch wished that his 'enemy had written a book,' he did not anticipate his own name on the title-page.

  27. The martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch and the very serious wounding of Apostle John Taylor occurred, as a result of these diabolical plots, in June.

  28. Truly he was a patriarch like unto Abraham, and a father to his people.

  29. Thus must the Patriarch Noah have felt when his ark floated upon the vast face of the water, and even the tops of the high hills were hidden and covered over.

  30. The prophet begins with the name that belonged to the patriarch by birth; the name of nature, which contained some indications of character.

  31. The name of the patriarch passes to his descendants, the nation is called after him that begat it.

  32. But the Patriarch had never heard of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and inquired, “Who is he?

  33. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of all England, gave Mr. Carzon a letter of introduction to the Patriarch of Constantinople, the head of the Greek Church.

  34. The Greek Patriarch went so far as to threaten with excommunication any Orthodox Albanian who should use the "accursed language" in church or school.

  35. The Serbs had had no Bishop in Turkish territory since the destruction of the Serb Bishopric of Ipek in 1766, which was the work of the Greek Patriarch rather than of the Turk.

  36. So did the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople.

  37. But in 1680 Arsenius the Patriarch had decided to accept the protection of Austria and emigrated to Karlovatz with most of his flock.

  38. Till then the Vladikas of Montenegro had been consecrated by the Serb Patriarch at Ipek.

  39. Far from "promoting Christianity" the result of this was that the Greek Patriarch excommunicated the Exarch and all his followers, and war was declared between the two Churches.

  40. Even the Patriarch of Ipek who was on the verge of dismissal, cried for the protection of Stefan Mali, who set to work to govern with great energy.

  41. The other great Bible is the one known as the Alexandrian, which was presented, in 1628, to King Charles I of England by Cyril Lucar, patriarch of Constantinople, who had brought it from Alexandria.

  42. Alexander was seated before the vestibule of the basilica, attended by his bishops and cardinals, by the patriarch of Aquileja, by the archbishops and bishops of Lombardy, all of them in state, and clothed in their church robes.

  43. He made Martyn's acquaintance at Etchmiatzin, the Armenian monastery at Erivan, where he had gone to pay a visit to the Patriarch or chief of that people, and remained three days to recruit his exhausted strength.

  44. I told the Patriarch that I was so happy in being here that, did duty permit, I could almost be willing to become a monk with them.

  45. The Patriarch had a dignified rather than a venerable appearance.

  46. He is indeed the select Monster of that region; the Patriarch of all the Monsters, little as he dreams of being such.

  47. He was the Patriarch of Kings, that one [in a certain sense, your Majesty!

  48. Willing enough he; but they the Faithful--alas, the Patriarch finds that they have none of his own heroic ardor, and that the thing cannot be done.

  49. Better be Patriarch of the Greek Church, like my sister the Empress of Russia!

  50. But it did not last when I said:] If the Kaiser were Patriarch of the Catholics, that too wouldn't be a bad place.

  51. No hoary priests after that Patriarch 245 Who bent the curse against his country's heart, Which clove his own at last?

  52. For the Improvement of the Slavonic Bible, Nikon alone, by applying to the Patriarch of Constantinople and other Greek dignitaries, obtained 500 Greek MSS.

  53. We have no such sylvan patriarch in Europe.

  54. The Patriarch of Constantinople was the head of the Christian Church in the East, as the Bishop of Rome was in the West, while the latter, as the successor of St. Peter, was the head of the universal Church.

  55. Old Schalk was a well-known character, and was looked upon as a patriarch and an oracle by the Trek-Boers for hundreds of miles around.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patriarch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
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