Word: patriarchate
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...wasn’t until 1982, when Patriarch Pimen petitioned the government to allow one monastery to reopen to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Christianity in Russia that the Danilov was allowed begin operating again...
Today, the monastery is the center of the Russian Orthodox Church, with Patriarch Alexei II residing on its grounds and monks active in charity work...
...monks say the archimandrite—the assistant to the patriarch, the highest position in the Russian Orthodox Church—may make a special trip to Harvard to speak with Summers in October...
...false Magdalenes are removed. But it fulfills a deep narrative expectation: for the alpha male to take a mate, for a yin to Jesus' yang or, as some neopagans have suggested, for a goddess to his god. Martin Luther believed that Jesus and Magdalene were married, as did Mormon patriarch Brigham Young...
...Motorola's behalf last year, redress in the U.S. case would please Washington, with which Ankara is eager to patch up relations after the Iraq war. Failure, however, could see the Uzans emerge politically stronger than ever. The Uzan business empire is built on humble foundations. The patriarch of the Uzan clan, Kemal, the son of a Bosnian farmer who emigrated to Turkey in the 1920s, built a construction empire in the 1970s and '80s, benefiting from close ties with then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who in effect brought capitalism to the country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise...