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 called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a composition of "πάτερ" (pater) meaning father and "άρχων" (archon) meaning leader, chief, ruler, king, etc. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is called the Patriarchal Age. The word has also taken on other meanin ...

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• Patriarch - Primates of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in order of precedence
• Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the Holy Catholic and Orthodox Church
• Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church
• Patriarch - Latin Rite
• Patriarch - Eastern Rite Patriarchs
• Patriarch - Historical Patriarchs in the Roman Catholic Church
• Patriarch - Current Patriarchs in Oriental Orthodox Churches
• Patriarch - Patriarchs in Nestorian Churches

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List of current patriarchs, List of current patriarchs - Patriarchs and Pope in the Catholic Church, List of current patriarchs - Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church, List of current patriarchs - Patriarchs in the Oriental Orthodox Church, List of current patriarchs - Patriarchs in the Nestorian Church

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Patriarch - Latin Rite. The Patriarch of the East Indies The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem The Patriarch of Lisbon The Patriarch of Venice The Patriarch of the West Indies (vacant since 1963) Patriarch - Eastern Rite Patriarchs. The Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria The Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch The Melkite Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch The Cath ...

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Patriarch, Patriarch - Primates of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in order of precedence, Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the Holy Catholic and Orthodox Church, Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church, Patriarch - Latin Rite, Patriarch - Eastern Rite Patriarchs, Patriarch - Historical Patriarchs in the Roman Catholic Church, Patriarch - Current Patriarchs in Oriental Orthodox Churches, Patriarch - Patriarchs in Nestorian Churches

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The Patriarch is the leader of the Immigrant Fleet and, ultimately, head of the Ormus superorganization prior his death in Xenosaga Episode II. The Patriarch was obsessed with obtaining the Zohar for the ultimate power that his religion and society preached about. He used Ormus and its dummy corporations and contacts, including U-TIC and Albedo, to unlock Old Miltia and retreive the Original Zohar and Proto Omega, which was the ultimate weapon in the known galaxy. However, his subordinates, namely Margulis, Sellers, and Heinlei ...

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List of antagonists in Xenosaga, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Albedo, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Dimitri Yuriev, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Heinlein, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Margulis, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Patriarch, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Pellegri, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Sellers, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - T-elos, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Testaments, List of antagonists in Xenosaga - Wilhelm

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The Cave of the Patriarchs is considered to be the spiritual center of the ancient city of Hebron. It lies in the southwest part of the West Bank, in the heart of ancient Judea. It is called in Hebrew Me'arat HaMakhpela (מערת המכפלה): "The Cave of the 'double' caves or tombs", because (according to Jewish tradition) its hidden twin caves are considered to be the burial place of four "pairs" of important Biblical couples: (1) Adam and Eve; (2) ...

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• Cave of the Patriarchs - Book of Genesis
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Judaism
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Islam
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Status
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Conflict
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Current situation

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The Patriarch of Constantinople is the Ecumenical Patriarch, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox communion. In this capacity he is first in honor among all the Orthodox bishops, presides over any council of bishops in which he takes part and serves as primary spokesman for the communion, but has no jurisdiction over the other patriarchs or the other autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. In addition to being spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative head of some four million Ukrainian, Greek, Carpatho-Russian and Al ...

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• Patriarch of Constantinople - Issues of Religious Freedom
• Patriarch of Constantinople - Notes and References

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This is a list of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs. The Armenian Catholic patriarchate was established in 1740 and recognized by the Pope of the Catholic Church in 1742 following a schism within the Armenian Patriarchate based in Cilicia. They are one of the Uniate Patriarchs of the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church. Armenian Catholic Patriarchs - Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia 1737-present. Apraham Bedros I 1737-1749 Hagop Bedros II 1749-1753 Mikael Bedros III 1753-17 ...

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• Armenian Catholic Patriarchs - Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia 1737-present

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The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople is today head of one of the smallest Patriarchates of the Oriental Orthodox Church but has exerted a very significant political role and today still exercises a spiritual authority which earns him considerable respect among Orthodox churches. Despite a huge diminution in the number of its faithful, the patriarchate is still the largest Christian community in Turkey. He is under the ...

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This is a list of Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon, the leaders of the Chaldean Catholic Church and one of the Patriarchs of the east of the Roman Catholic Church. The patriarchate was recognized by the Holy See following the reconciliation of Mar Yohanan Soulaqa VIII with Rome in 1552. This list continues from the Nestorian succession that traces itself back from St. Thomas in the 1st century. Catholic Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon - Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon. (The Catholic Patriarchs were o ...

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• Catholic Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon - Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon

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His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia is the head of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church. The Catholicos-Patriarch is also Archbishop of Mtskheta and Tbilisi and head of the Holy Synod. His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II has been Catholicos-Patriarch since 1977. Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I (1010-1030). In the 15th century the Georgian Orthodox Church was divided into ...

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• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia - List of Catholicos Patriarchs of All Gerogia
• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia - Archbishops of Mtskheta 335-467
• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia - Catholicoses of Iberia 467-1010
• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia - Catholicos-Patriarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church 1010-1811
• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia - Catholicos-Patriarchs of All Georgia 1917-present

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In hierarchical Christian churches, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the bishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of an old Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital. In the Western patriarchate of the Roman Catholic Church, metropolitans have supervisory authority over the other bishops in their ecclesiastical province, called suffragan bishops. They also have authority over the dioceses in their province when there is a vacancy caused by the death or ...

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The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem was founded in 638. It is under the soverignty of His Holiness, the Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians. List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem - Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem. Abraham I (638-669) Krikor Yetesati (669-696) Kevork (696-708) Mgrdich (708-730) Hovhannes (730-758) Stepanos (758-774) Yeghia (774-797) unknown... Abraham II (885-909) unknow ...

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• List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem - Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem

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This is a list of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria. The head the Eastern Uniate Coptic Catholic Church. In 1741 an apostolic vicariate was established for Alexandria for Coptic Christians wanting to unite with Rome. This later on was elevated into a patriarchate in 1895. List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria - List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria. Kyrillos II Macaire 1895-1908 Maximos Sedfaoui (locum tenens) Markos II 1 ...

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• List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria - List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria

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Patriarchy (from Greek: patria meaning father and arché meaning rule) is the anthropological term used to define the sociological condition where male members of a society tend to predominate in positions of power; with the more powerful the position, the more likely it is that a male will hold that position. The term patriarchy is also used in systems of ranking male leadership in certain hierarchical churches or religious bodies (see patriarch and Patriarchate). Examples include the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox churches. Finally, the term patriarchy is used perjoratively to describe a ...

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• Patriarchy - In anthropology
• Patriarchy - In gender studies
• Patriarchy - Feminist view
• Patriarchy - Profeminism and patriarchy
• Patriarchy - In psychology
• Patriarchy - Literature

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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia. The recognition of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 927 AD makes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church the oldest autocephalous Orthodox Church in the world after the four Eastern Patriarchates: those of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Including:

• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Canonical status and organisation
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Dioceses
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - History of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Early Christianity
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Establishment of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Autocephaly of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Ohrid Archbishopric
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Turnovo Patriarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Ottoman rule
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - The Bulgarian Exarchate
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Second restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate

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Huineng (慧能, 638 - 713) was a Chinese Chan (Chinese Zen) monastic who is one of the most important figures in the entire tradition. Huineng is the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Chan Buddhism. In Japanese he is known as Daikan Enō. He is said to have advocated an immediate and direct approach to Buddhist practice and enlightenment, and in this regard, is considered the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" (頓教) Southern Chan school of Buddhism. While these are the legendary accounts handed down by the traditi ...

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• Huineng - Biography
• Huineng - Becoming the Sixth Patriarch

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The Antiochian Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that composed the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the Great Schism, and today is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. It claims to be the sole legitimate successor to the Christian community founded in Antioch by the Apostle St. Peter. Its North American branch is autonomous, although the Holy Synod of Antioch still apoints its head bishop. The seat of the patriarchate was formerly Antioch, in what is now Tur ...

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Archon (Gr. αρχων, pl. αρχοντες) is a Greek word that means "ruler" or the like, though it is frequently encountered as the title of some specific public office. In form the word is simply the masculine participle of the verb stem αρχο-, derived from the same root that appears in words such as monarch and hierarchy. In the early literary period of ancient Greece the chief magistrates of various Greek city states were called Archons. The term was also used throughout Greek history in a more general sense, ra ...

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• Archon - Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
• Archon - Gnostic Archons

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Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein (commonly called in Israel ברוך גולדשטיין Barukh Goldshteyn) (December 9 or December 12, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was a Jewish American-Israeli physician who killed 29 Muslims and injured approximately 100 in a 1994 shooting attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Israel. Baruch Goldstein - Background. Born in Brooklyn, New York to an Orthodox Jewish family, Dr. Goldstein was a direct descendant of the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lia ...

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• Baruch Goldstein - Background
• Baruch Goldstein - Cave of the Patriarchs Shooting
• Baruch Goldstein - Supporters of Goldstein
• Baruch Goldstein - Israel's Response

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When the city was under the control of the Ottoman Turks, Jews were forbidden to enter and were only permitted to pray outside seven steps up the entering stairway. When Israel captured the area during the 1967 Six Day War, it is said that then Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was given the keys and was supposedly shown the actual secret hidden passageways that lead to the below-ground tombs. In 1994, militant Jewish fundamentalist Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinian Muslims during prayers at the site. The Wye River Accords provided a tempora ...

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Cave of the Patriarchs, Cave of the Patriarchs - Book of Genesis, Cave of the Patriarchs - Judaism, Cave of the Patriarchs - Islam, Cave of the Patriarchs - Status, Cave of the Patriarchs - Conflict, Cave of the Patriarchs - Current situation

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