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The term Patriarch had been in use for a long time in the church signifying merely a bishop, irrespective of the dignity he possessed, but it was finally limited to this higher class of the clergy, in which sense I now employ it.
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That's why, in 2006, he dropped the title Patriarch of the West from the list of handles conferred on the Pope.
NSS News 2009
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The leadership of the Gnostic Church passed through the following succession: after Doinel’s resignation to the poet Fabre des Essarts, who was also an official in the Ministry of Public Education; on his death in 1917 to Jean Bricaud, the writer on the occult, who took the title Patriarch Jean II; Chevillon took over on Bricaud’s death in 1934.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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The leadership of the Gnostic Church passed through the following succession: after Doinel’s resignation to the poet Fabre des Essarts, who was also an official in the Ministry of Public Education; on his death in 1917 to Jean Bricaud, the writer on the occult, who took the title Patriarch Jean II; Chevillon took over on Bricaud’s death in 1934.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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The leadership of the Gnostic Church passed through the following succession: after Doinel’s resignation to the poet Fabre des Essarts, who was also an official in the Ministry of Public Education; on his death in 1917 to Jean Bricaud, the writer on the occult, who took the title Patriarch Jean II; Chevillon took over on Bricaud’s death in 1934.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Patriarch is a distressed private equity firm managing $7 billion in assets and a portfolio of over 70 companies that range from helicopters to cosmetics.
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They also were received by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem:
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The Patriarch is said to enjoy the highest popularity among his flock, and it is added that his talents, virtue, and learning, entitle him to all their veneration.
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He took the name Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan.
Clerical Whispers 2009
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Certain ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome even at the present time bear the honorary title Patriarch; but, to quote the words of the Encyclopædia Britannica, "In a strictly technical sense, however, that church recognizes only five Patriarchates, those of
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