Word: patriarchal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
...Patriarch of Antioch is shepherd of about 1,000,000 souls throughout the world-110,000 of them in the U.S., 40,000 in Canada and 250,000 in Latin America. The Antioch patriarchate shares dogma, tradition and ritual with the other Orthodox patriarchates-Russia, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria-in a relationship roughly equivalent to the communion between the Episcopalian Church and the Church of England. Ever since 1945 the U.S.S.R. has been wooing the patriarchs with offers of money-earning properties in Russia, gifts to monasteries, and free trips to Moscow. When Antioch Patriarch Alexandros III died last June, after...
...that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims of the Lebanese revolution...
Next the archbishops were locked into the Cathedral of Mariameyeh to vote on one of the three top candidates. Within 30 minutes, the result was announced: Tripoli's Archbishop Abu Rajaili became Patriarch Theodosios...
...moderate, gentle man with seven languages at his command, the Beirut-born patriarch is expected to try to keep his church out of politics, though the Russians may be too tough for him. Said one knowing Lebanese last week: "I bet they've started work on that old man already. And it's doubtful that he'll be able to know everything that's going on in the patriarchate. Anyway, it won't be too long before the Russians have another crack at getting their...