- Machpelah by Stella Lowe
Cave, near Hebron; also called the Cave of the Patriarchs. The Book of Genesis relates that it was bought by Abraham from Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, for a family burial place. The Mosque of Ibrahim, which now encloses the site, may be a successor to a structure built by ...
- Patriarch by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... Church was headed by the four patriarchs of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. When independent Slavic states arose in Bulgaria and Serbia, patriarchs were also created to head those churches.In Russia, the first patriarch was elected at a council of the Russian ecclesiastical hierarchy in 1589. In the late 16th century and throughout the 17th, the ...
- Catholicos by Webster's
... church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.
- Patriarchal by Webster's
... to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.(a.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.(a.) Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- Abraham by Jazmine Blair
... BC) First of the Hebrew patriarchs, revered by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Genesis tells how Abraham, at 75, left Ur with his barren wife, Sarai (later Sarah), and others to found a new nation in Canaan. There God made a covenant with him, promising that his descendants would inherit the land and become a great nation. Abraham fathered Ishmael by Sarah's ...