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patriarchate 1. the office, jurisdiction, province, or residence of a patriarch 2. a family or people under male domination or government How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 749), who, living within Muslim domains, had the freedom to write against the heresies of Byzantine iconoclasm, which at the time was the official policy of the patriarchate in Constantinople, also apparently had the freedom to write against Islam. Despite CoMission's efforts to co-opt Russian church support by providing technological and financial assistance for the Orthodox University in Moscow, the Moscow Patriarchate ultimately could not countenance the affront of such open Protestant proselytizing in the Orthodox heartland. A spokesperson for the Romanian Orthodox Church's Bucharest patriarchate told the Agence France-Presse news agency his church had already admitted its infiltration by communist agents and was not against "the opening of archives dealing with priests. |
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