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Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.

Noah :: Noah (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge..

Eudoxian :: Eudoxian (n.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius..

Teraphim :: Teraphim (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.

Patriarchy :: Patriarchy (n.) Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.

Hierarchy :: Hierarchy (n.) A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests..

Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..

Damianist :: Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity..

Patriarchism :: Patriarchism (n.) Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family..

Abrahamic :: Abrahamic (a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant..

Patriarchy :: Patriarchy (n.) The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3..

Patriarchship :: Patriarchship (n.) A patriarchate.

Patriarchdom :: Patriarchdom (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.

Autocephalous :: Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches..

Patriarchal :: Patriarchal (a.) Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.

Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..

Noachian :: Noachian (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time..

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