noun. The territory, rule, or rank of a patriarch.

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noun. The office, dignity, or status of a patriarch; also, the period of office of a patriarch.

noun. The residence of a patriarch.

noun. The community or province under the jurisdiction of a patriarch.

noun. A patriarchy or patriarchal community.

noun. The state of social organization, in which the child is a member of the social division to which its father belongs.

noun. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.

noun. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.

noun. A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3.

noun. The term of office of a Christian patriarch.

noun. The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.

noun. The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.

noun. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line

noun. the jurisdiction of a patriarch

"For to deny that the patriarchate is a legal entity with certain rights, an entity that can work with the Turkish government within the framework of the law, means that all issues between the patriarchate and the state become po-litical issues, subject to political pressures and counterpressures -- especially problematic, since less than one tenth of 1 per-cent of the Turkish population is Orthodox."

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