In addition, the canon law of some patriarchal churches requires that it be convoked at predetermined intervals.

Finally, she moves to Mexico to escape "the patriarchal American church."

A protégé and confidant of the pope, he embodies the patriarchal and authoritarian church this pope has tried to foster.

The four patriarchal churches represented are:

By 700, Christianity had lost more than half its territory, including the oldest patriarchal churches, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.

The patriarchal church is the full-grown form of an Oriental Catholic Church.

These churches have almost the same rights and obligations of patriarchal churches.

The Renovationists fought with the patriarchal or main Orthodox Church before they were suppressed when the patriarchal church was legalized in 1943.

The patriarchal church discouraged women from participating in the work place and strongly encouraged them to remain at home.

A patriarchal church is a full-grown form of an Eastern Catholic church.