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Patriarchate
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1. Terminology In ecclesiastical usage,
patriarchate denotes the administrative sphere of a patriarch. Since late antiquity,
patriarch (Greek
patriárches - a compound of
patḗr, “father,” and
árchein, “be a commander,” “rule” – originally meaning “clan chief” or “progenitor”) was a title of senior Christian clergy. As early as the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), we can see a regional structure of the church with centers at Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch; they were joined in 381 by the new capital, Constantinople, and in 451 by Jerusalem.These five episcopal sees, …
Date:
2020-10-06
