A patriarch is the oldest male member of a defined group; a founder. There are other religious meanings.
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We held a 50th birthday party for the patriarch of our family.In the past there were patriarch leaders in tribes.The patriarch ruled his country as if it were his family.Uncle George, the patriarch of the family, gave the toast at the wedding.The patriarch in Joe's family is father John III.The patriarch of the family liked to hold family reunions.
The patriach's were versing the matriahc's in babysitting.
It should not be capitalized unless it is being used as a place, name, or title of a person.
The rare but expressive term 'antediluvian patriarch' is literally defined as 'before-the-flood father-figure.' What it typically refers to are the male family-leaders in the Judeo-Christian Bible (for example, Adam and Methuselah) who lived before the great flood which Noah's Ark is said to have survived.
Patriarch [Πατριάρχης = Αρχή Πατρός] meaning the leadership of the father.
A Byzantine Patriarch is an alternative name for the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
No Aaron was not a patriarch.
A patriarch is male.
There is the patriarch and then there's the ecumenical patriarch. There are many partiarchs for each nationality of Orthodoxy and the ecumenical patriarch is the head of all Orthodox. He is not, though, like the Pope. The ecumenical patriarch is the "first among equals" and is by no means infallible.
The patriarch is the head of the Orthodox church. It is currently Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
The patriarch is the head of the Orthodox church. It is currently Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.
In genealogy the patriarch is the another name for the father.
Patriarch Metropolitan Kirill
There was an annual birthday party for the family patriarch.
Patriarch Irenaios was born in 1939.
Patriarch Ignatius died in 1620.
Patriarch Ignatius was born in 1540.