(1) As the patriarch , his family must look up to him, honor him.

(2) On his deathbed, a family patriarch agonizes over being able to recognize his grandchildren.

(3) These days he seems happiest playing the family patriarch .

(4) They have been requesting the title of patriarch for the head of their church, and some church officials are already using this title internally.

(5) In the seventh century matters were further complicated when the Maronites, found chiefly in Mount Lebanon, also broke away from the Orthodox church and appointed their own patriarch .

(6) The family patriarch makes all decisions regarding living arrangements, children's marriages, and money.

(7) Hence the Greek Orthodox patriarch sat at the top of the Orthodox community, possessing more power under the Ottomans than he had ever enjoyed under the Byzantine emperors.

(8) The head of the house is the elderly father or the patriarch of the family, and the mother has authority over her daughter-in-law.

(9) Islam is sometimes called the u2018third Abrahamic traditionu2019 for its reliance on the patriarchal figure of Abraham, the same patriarch revered in Judaism and Christianity.

(10) The Sages tell us that the patriarch Jacob, after a 22-year separation from his son Joseph, finally went down to Egypt to see him.

(11) The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch .

(12) There are about a thousand Orthodox Christians in Cuba, and the patriarch was there to dedicate a new church in downtown Havana.

(13) The biblical patriarch Jacob mourned over his son Joseph for 22 years, mistakenly believing that he had been killed by a wild animal.

(14) While the Pope may speak unilaterally with an authority binding on his whole church, no single bishop or patriarch within Orthodoxy has such authority or such a voice.

(15) In 1953 he was made a cardinal and appointed patriarch of Venice.

(16) He had become the patriarch of the family, and of a traditional style of singing as well.

(17) He is the patriarch of a small, informally organized group engaged in psycho-historical studies.

(18) He proceeded down the aisle, dressed in the robe of the patriarch of the family.

(19) When their father had died, even though Tyler was only seven at the time, he had effectively become the patriarch of the family.

(20) Hollywood's reigning patriarch rose to speak

(21) In the Genesis 27 story, the patriarch Isaac promises to bless his older and favorite son Esau if Esau will kill a deer, prepare the meat, and bring it to him.

(22) War broke out between the four Sumerian kings and the five Canaanite kings, and in the ensuing conflict Lot, a Sodom resident and nephew of the patriarch Abraham, was abducted.

(23) The close-knit family was headed by a patriarch who made all pivotal decisions.

(24) The most powerful church leaders were the bishop of Rome, called the pope, in the West and the patriarch of Constantinople in the East.

(25) The family patriarch , in his 70s, claimed his father built the house.

(26) The patriarch of the family cautiously goes into the kitchen only to find that there is only a half quart of milk and two slices of bread left!

(27) After two years, word comes to the family patriarch , their grandfather.

(28) The family patriarch , Jack, makes a foolish decision that affects the rest of the family for decades.

(29) He's the patriarch of all spin doctors

(30) The bishop of Jerusalem, who had been given the title of patriarch in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon, had jurisdiction over Palestine.