Patriarch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: patriarchPatriarchal
Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs possessed by or subject to patriarchs as patriarchal authority or jurisdiction a patriarchal see a patriarchal church...
Patriarchate
The office dignity or jurisdiction of a patriarch...
Patriarchic
Patriarchal...
Patriarchism
Government by a patriarch or the head of a family...
Patriarch
Patriarch, the chief bishop over several countries or provinces, as an archbishop is of several dioceses, God. 20....
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Patriarchdom
The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch patriarchate...
Russian Church
The established church of the Russian empire up to the revolution of 1917 at which time the ruling Communist party tried to suppress all religious worship The czar was the nominal head of the church but he never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma It still forms a portion by far the largest of the Orthodox Eastern Church and is governed by the Patriarch and the Holy Synod In 1988 the church with official approval celebrated the 1000 year anniversary of the baptism of Russia After breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Russian Church began to regain some its old influence in Russian life and the government turned over some of the confiscated churches back to church control The Russian Church was recognized anew as the official church of Russia with special priveleges by an act of the Russian Duma in 1997 The Metropolitan of Moscow as Patriarch of the church is regarded as the first among equals in order of deference among bishops of the church...
Catholicos
The spiritual head of the Armenian church who resides at Etchmiadzin Russia and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over and consecrates the holy oil for the Armenians of Russia Turkey and Persia including the Patriarchs of Constantinople Jerusalem and Sis...
Damianist
A follower of Damian patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity...
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