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patriarch

[pey-tree-ahrk] / ˈpeɪ triˌɑrk /


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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday the Latin Patriarch would get "full and immediate access" to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, after police denied him entry on Palm Sunday.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

"I have instructed the relevant authorities that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch, be granted full and immediate access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem," Netanyahu tweeted on X.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Eric Schiffer, chairman of the Los Angeles-based private-equity firm The Patriarch Organization, said he does not see signs of a more long-lasting depreciation of the U.S. currency.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

Leo is due to visit Iznik, as Nicaea is now called, on Friday together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in Eastern Orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Facing me when I entered was the old portrait of Patriarch Athenagoras that Desdemona had saved from the yard sale years ago.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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