Patriarch , in Christian Churches
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...Christian churches in Christian churches, title of certain exalted...5th 6th cent.) created new churches, and since then the three Orthodox patriarchs in Asia have had...Chaldaean rite; see Nestorian Church ), and Cilicia (Armenian...Spanish). In the Russian Orthodox Church the czar set up (1580...