![]() In the Catholic Church, the bishop who is head of a particular autonomous church, known in canon law as a church sui iuris, is ordinarily a patriarch, though this responsibility can be entrusted to a major archbishop, metropolitan, or other prelate for a number of reasons. ![]() Catholic Church Catholic Patriarchal (non cardinal) coat of arms Patriarchs Map of Justinian's Pentarchy Patriarch of Alexandria Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak wearing a distinctive clothing of a patriarch The word patriarch originally acquired its religious meaning in the Septuagint version of the Bible. The office and the ecclesiastical circumscription of a Christian patriarch is termed a patriarchate.Ībraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of the people of Israel, and the period during which they lived is termed the Patriarchal Age. The term developed an ecclesiastical meaning within Christianity. Historically, a patriarch has often been the logical choice to act as ethnarch of the community identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed (such as Christians within the Ottoman Empire). ![]() The system of such rule of families by senior males is termed patriarchy. Originally, a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The word is derived from Greek πατριάρχης ( patriarchēs), meaning "chief or father of a family", a compound of πατριά ( patria), meaning "family", and ἄρχειν ( archein), meaning "to rule". The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes – such as the Pope of Rome or Pope of Alexandria, and catholicoi – such as Catholicos Karekin II).
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