What is the meaning of Patriarch?

noun

  • Title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem. )
  • The male head of family or tribe.
  • Any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race.
  • A man who is older and higher in rank than yourself. .
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