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  • noun Plural form of patriarchate.

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Examples

  • There were at first four regular patriarchates, that is, districts superintended by patriarchs.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • Included in its communion are the ancient patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem (and now Moscow).

    The Orthodox View 2008

  • The compromise might look like this: to end the schism, the Orthodox patriarchs would defer to Rome on matters not resolved otherwise, and Rome would confine her interventions in those patriarchates to matters not resolved otherwise.

    Ecumenism: alive and well Mike L 2007

  • The compromise might look like this: to end the schism, the Orthodox patriarchs would defer to Rome on matters not resolved otherwise, and Rome would confine her interventions in those patriarchates to matters not resolved otherwise.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

  • So it is highly unlikely, as a practical matter, that Moscow as well as all the other patriarchates in schism with Rome would agree to attend such a council and consider its decrees binding on the whole Church—even if Rome and Constantinople called for it and held it.

    Ravenna: the latest chapter in Catholic-Orthodox ecumenism Mike L 2007

  • So it is highly unlikely, as a practical matter, that Moscow as well as all the other patriarchates in schism with Rome would agree to attend such a council and consider its decrees binding on the whole Church—even if Rome and Constantinople called for it and held it.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

  • What I have not been able to figure out for sure is if these basilicas in Rome are assigned to the Latin patriarchates set up at the time of the crusades, or to the original Orthodox patriarchates.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I want it to retain its form of liturgy, its spirituality, its dogmas, its patriarchates and synods.

    Getting perspective on ecumenism Mike L 2007

  • What I have not been able to figure out for sure is if these basilicas in Rome are assigned to the Latin patriarchates set up at the time of the crusades, or to the original Orthodox patriarchates.

    Whose church is this? Fr Timothy Matkin 2007

  • I want it to retain its form of liturgy, its spirituality, its dogmas, its patriarchates and synods.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

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