Petrine

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Here, you can try Pre-Petrine dishes such as "oven-cooked buckwheat porridge with chicken hearts and porcini mushrooms" 4 dishes featuring cuisine of the merchant and aristocratic classes, such as "pike perch rissole with mashed potato"; and Soviet cuisine such as, "chicken Kiev" or "Russian salad".

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  1. adjective Of or relating to Saint Peter.

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  • Many evangelical Protestants are not even familiar with the doctrines of apostolic succession (all bishops of the Church must be successors of the College of Apostles) and Petrine succession (the head bishop of the Church must be a direct successor of St. Peter), so it comes as a surprise when they find these two things were MAJOR and NON-NEGOTIABLE doctrines of the Early Church. —  Latest Articles
  • This Petrine ministry is one of the distinguishing features of the Catholic Church because the Orthodox Churches do not recognize a primacy of jurisdiction for the Bishop of Rome. —  Latest Articles
  • I could easily reject the most feeble argument against a distinctive Petrine ministry based on the difference between Petros (Peter's name) and petra. (rock). —  Latest Articles
  • This sounded exactly like the language that the Popes have used in speaking of the Petrine ministry. —  Latest Articles
  • I concluded that there was much evidence in the New Testament for the Petrine ministry. —  Latest Articles
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin Petrus, Saint Peter + -ine1.

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  1. from Late Latin as if *Petrinus (cf. Middle Latin petrinus, from Greek πέτρινος, of rock), from Petrus, from Greek Πέτρος, Peter: see petrel.
 

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/ˈpitrɪn/
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