patriarchate

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  The term of office of a Christian patriarch.
 * The patriarchate of Pope John Paul II as Patriarch of the West was more than 25 years.
 * 1) The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
 * The Patriarchate of Constantinople has primacy over the whole of the Orthodox world.
 * 1) The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
 * The Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem is, by modern standards, a very cramped space.

Usage notes
This term would describe a kind of polity.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Galician: patriarcado
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَطْرِيَرْكِيَّة
 * Belarusian: патрыярхат, патрыярхія
 * Bulgarian: патриа́ршия
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 宗主教區
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بَطرِیقی


 * Bulgarian: патриа́ршия
 * Finnish:
 * Swedish: