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Example sentences for "patriarchate"

Lexicographically close words:
patria; patriae; patriam; patriarch; patriarchal; patriarchates; patriarchs; patribus; patrician; patricians
  1. His patriarchate was a period of peace and quiet for the church of Alexandria, and caused a temporary cessation of the quarrels between the Melchites and the Jacobites.

  2. Peter the Apostle, before he went to Rome, so that this day may be called the birthday of the Church and Patriarchate of Antioch.

  3. Acacius had been appointing those who were really patriarchs: here his own pretended patriarchate is shown to be an infringement on the ancient order of the Church.

  4. Jerusalem was only allowed to rank as a patriarchate in 451, and the seventh canon of Nice subordinated the see to that of Caesarea in Palestine.

  5. The line of Gregory was restored in 390 in the person of Isaac or Sahak, son of Nerses, and his patriarchate was the golden age of Armenian literature.

  6. The Russian Patriarchate came to an end in the time of Peter the Great.

  7. Though the idea of re-establishing the Patriarchate has more than once been raised, it has never been carried into execution.

  8. The days of the spiritual domination of the Greek patriarchate were numbered.

  9. The patriarchate retained its exclusive jurisdiction over all orthodox populations till 1870, when the Sultan issued a firman establishing the Bulgarian exarchate.

  10. The spiritual domination of the Greek patriarchate had tended more effectually than the temporal power of the Turks to the effacement of Bulgarian nationality.

  11. The patriarchate at length found it necessary to offer some concessions, but these appeared illusory to the Bulgarians, and long and acrimonious discussions followed.

  12. The independent patriarchate of Trnovo was suppressed; that of Ochrida was subsequently Hellenized.

  13. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem was restored.

  14. Many bishops of the Greek patriarchate were deeply moved by the most kind and pressing appeal of the Holy Father.

  15. Throughout my aim has been to bring into uniformity the opposing theories of the primeval patriarchate and the maternal family.

  16. Yet in this connection it is very necessary to remember that the reassertion of the patriarchate was as necessary a stage in human development as the maternal stage.

  17. It is thus proved to have been a less stable social system than the patriarchate which again succeeded it, or it would not have perished in the struggle with it.

  18. But as the patriarchate developed, and men began to gain individual possession of their children by the purchase of their mothers, the father became the dominant power in the family.

  19. This last is still in force among the Touaregs of the Sahara; and there are as well numerous traces of its former existence among the neighbouring Kabyles, though there the most rigorous patriarchate has replaced the maternal family.

  20. Of the Christians, the great majority profess the Eastern Orthodox faith, owning allegiance either to the Greek patriarchate or the Bulgarian exarchate.

  21. Orders from the Patriarchate were, that no one should have access to him, but some of the native brethren discovered the place of his confinement, and gained admittance.

  22. But his cause was the cause of his countrymen, and he had influential friends in the patriarchate of Antioch, who denied the fairness of his trial and the justice of his condemnation.

  23. Patriarchate of Constantinople, the, growth of, 390.

  24. The patriarchate of Alexandria had a long and distinguished history, and from it had spread missions far into the south.

  25. It was not till his widow Theodora assumed the reins of power in 842 as regent for her son that the final triumph of orthodoxy was assured; and this was followed by the five years' patriarchate of S.

  26. The vacant Patriarchate was for a time filled by a Greek, and the Albanians, many of whom were Mohammedans and therefore Turcophil, spread northwards and eastwards into lands that had been Serb since the seventh century.

  27. In 927 Rome recognized the kingdom and patriarchate of Bulgaria, and Peter was duly crowned by the Papal legate.

  28. He emancipated the Serbian Church from the trammels of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1831, from which date onwards it was ruled by a Metropolitan of Serb nationality, resident at Belgrade.

  29. Up to 1864 the Rumanian Church was subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

  30. The church of Gorizia rose to metropolitan rank, at the same time as the church of Udine, when the patriarchate of Aquileia came to an end, and its province was divided between the two new metropolitans thus called into being.

  31. When the rich capitals of the transepts were carved, the days of persecution were still of recent memory; when pointed arches were set on the ancient columns, the temporal power of the patriarchate was within a century of its fall.

  32. We find both the matriarchate and patriarchate family; and we may observe the greatest difference in the conduct of the parents in their care of offspring.

  33. The matriarchate disappeared and the patriarchate took its place.

  34. The rise of the patriarchate implied the rule of private property and the subjugation and enslavement of woman.

  35. Just as the transition from the matriarchate to the patriarchate was accomplished in Athens, it was accomplished elsewhere as soon as a similar degree of development had been attained.

  36. In Athens, the matriarchate had to make way to the patriarchate at an early period, but apparently not without strong opposition on the part of the women.

  37. With the exception of one on Carmel, and a problematical one at Shefr-Amr, about six miles from Haifa, all the synagogues hitherto found have been within the immediate limits of what was formerly the patriarchate of Tiberias.

  38. The reestablishment of the Bulgarian patriarchate in 1235 represented the end of the short-lived alliance between the Bulgarian church and Rome.

  39. But as Rome increased in wealth and luxurious modes of living, the influence of the Patriarchate correspondingly extended, the perception of justice at the same time diminishing.

  40. Under the Patriarchate woman has ever been regarded as a slave to be disposed of as father, husband or brother chose.

  41. Not until the Patriarchate were wives regarded as property, the sale of daughters as a legitimate means of family income, or their destruction at birth looked upon as a justifiable act.

  42. To this end polygamy was instituted, becoming as marked a feature of the Patriarchate as monogamy was of the Matriarchate.

  43. The Patriarchate under which Biblical history and Judaism commenced, was a rule of men whose lives and religion were based upon passions of the grossest kind, showing but few indications of softness or refinement.

  44. But the Patriarchate subverted this sublime teaching, materializing spiritual truths, and substituting the sacrifice of animals, whose blood was declared a sweet smelling savor to the Lord of Hosts.

  45. From its first theory of woman's inferiority to its last struggle for power at the present day, the influence and action of the Patriarchate is clearly seen.


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    Other words:
    archbishopric; aristocracy; autonomy; bishopric; chancellery; chieftaincy; colonialism; commonwealth; consulate; deanery; democracy; dictatorship; directorship; episcopacy; federation; hierarchy; leadership; lordship; magistracy; mastership; mastery; mayoralty; militarism; monarchy; nobility; papacy; pontificate; prefecture; presidency; principality; protectorate; regency; republic; theocracy; tyranny