Patriarch

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Patriarch can refer to:

• Patriarch, the highest-ranking bishops of the autocephalous churches in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East
• Patriarchs (Bible), prominent figures in the Hebrew scriptures, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
• Patriarch (Latter Day Saints), the Melchizedek Priesthood office in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that is called evangelist in the New Testament
• Sangharaja, often translated as Supreme Patriarch, is a title given to senior Theravada Buddhist monks in certain countries.
• In Buddhism, a patriarch is a historic teacher who transferred the teachings (Chinese: 祖; pinyin: zǔ; literally "ancestor"), see Lineage (Buddhism).
• Nasi, the head of the Supreme Court (Sanhedrin) of Israel from 191 BCE to 425 CE.
• Sociology: The leader of a patriarchy, a system of power where males predominate

In fiction

• Kzinti Patriarch

Other uses

• A clipper owned by the Aberdeen White Star Line

In Video Games

• The boss on wave 11 on the Killing Floor

See also

• Patriarchate
• Matriarch, the corresponding female term to some of these senses
• Patriarchalism, a seventeenth century political theory of absolute monarchy in England

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