English-Italian translations for patriarchate

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