English-German translations for patriarchate

• Patriarchat das
  Das Ökumenische Patriarchat hat nur beschränkte Rechte zur Ausbildung seiner Geistlichen und zur freien Wahl des Ökumenischen Patriarchen. The Ecumenical Patriarchate has limited rights to train clergy and freely elect the Ecumenical Patriarch.
  Betrifft: Ökumenischer Charakter des Patriarchats von Konstantinopel Subject: Ecumenical nature of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
  Die Position des Patriarchats ist hier schon erwähnt worden. The position of the Patriarchate has already been mentioned here.

Definition of patriarchate

• The term of office of a Christian patriarch
• The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch
• The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff

Examples

• The patriarchate of Pope John Paul II as Patriarch of the West was more than 25 years.
• The Patriarchate of Constantinople has primacy over the whole of the Orthodox world.
• The Latin patriarchate in Jerusalem is, by modern standards, a very cramped space.

Related words

• patriarchal
• heteropatriarchal
• antipatriarchal
• patriarchal church
• Ecumenical Patriarchate