Village patriarch, eh?

Amadeo, you'll be living like a patriarch.

Mar Raphael I Bidawid, Baghdad 28 August 1997 Chaldean Patriarch of

Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.

Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Concerning Mr. Thich Huyen Quang (Le Dinh Nhan), the source reported that he is a Vietnamese citizen and Buddhist monk, aged 87, the Fourth Supreme Patriarch of UBCV.

Despite the Government's rebuttal of the source's allegations, the Working Group considers that the deprivation of liberty suffered by the Buddhist Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang has been established.

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

The source also acknowledges that the Patriarch received medical treatment in Binh Dinh Province General Hospital, but adds that on completion of the treatment was taken back to the Nguyen Thieu Monastery.

70. The Roman Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, speaking of the status of Jerusalem, had said that the negotiators must meet to talk and to resolve the question of Jerusalem, despite all its difficulties.

The Chinese view the state as an intimate not just as an intimate actually, as a member of the family not just in fact as a member of the family, but as the head of the family, the patriarch of the family.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III recently stated that, since 2011, over 1,000 Christians have been killed and more than 40 churches and other Christian institutions (schools, orphanages, and care homes) have been damaged or destroyed. Some estimate that 300,000 Christians have fled Syria.

An ordinary, natural death does not accord with the superhero image of the patriarch fighting the nation s enemies. Maduro s conspiracy theory that his mentor s cancer was the result of poisoning by the dark forces that wanted him out of the way is not particularly original, though it does raise the stakes.

And whether it's the opening line from One Hundred Years of Solitude or the fantastical stream of consciousness in Autumn of the Patriarch, where the words rush by, page after page of unpunctuated imagery sweeping the reader along like some wild river twisting through a primal South American jungle, reading Márquez is a visceral experience.

It was the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping who in 1992 made the surprising demand that Hu, former Secretary of the Communist Youth League and protégé of ousted party chief Hu Yaobang, be inducted into the Chinese Communist Party s (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee. Deng, in effect, personally designated Hu as successor to President Jiang Zemin.

In February, Egypt s Coptic patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, sharply criticized the country s leadership in a televised interview, calling the new constitution discriminatory and dismissing Morsi s national dialogues as an empty gesture. This unusually assertive stance reflects rising frustration among Christians, as well as the secular and liberal opposition, with the Muslim Brotherhood s power monopoly.

One of the late Pope John Paul II s unfulfilled dreams was to visit Moscow and forge a rapprochement with the Orthodox Church. But, although he was invited to Moscow by Russia s three most recent presidents Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, and Mikhail Gorbachev opposition to the visit by Orthodox Patriarch Alexi prevented the Pope from making the journey before he died.

This is one reason why Putin was one of the few leading heads of state to miss attending Pope John Paul s funeral. Although the Orthodox Church did send a delegation, immediately after the funeral Patriarch Alexi warned that the disagreements between the two branches of Christianity go much deeper than the former Pope s Polish nationality, which was always a particular sore spot for Russian Orthodox Slavs.

A dictator s death throes are always a form of theater, featuring ecstatic masses, would be successors fighting for political survival, and, behind the scenes, the dictator s coterie locked in efforts to extend the life of their patriarch until they can secure their privileges. Franco s son in law, who was also the family doctor, kept the dying despot on life support machines for more than a month.

As the source alleges, the deprivation of liberty suffered by Thich Huyen Quang is tantamount to house arrest, although no procedures have been respected and no charges of any kind have been laid, in violation of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and on no apparent grounds other than his status as a Buddhist patriarch.

420. On 28 August, some 2,000 Christians from Bethlehem, Beit Jallah and Beit Sahur said their prayers at the Gilo roadblock after they had been barred by the IDF from entering Jerusalem. Papal Nuncio Adrea Montezemolo stated that while foreigners were allowed through, Palestinians were still being stopped. He stated that even the Latin Patriarch had difficulties when he went from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. (Ha apos aretz, Jerusalem Post, 29 August)

Indeed, what was good enough for Santa Evita, as the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez called her, might be good enough for Chávez. Like the dying tyrant in Gabriel García Márquez s The Autumn of the Patriarch, who righteously lamented the fate that would befall the poor after his passing, Chávez will remain for years to come the saintly benefactor, martyr, and redeemer of the destitute in the eyes of the Venezuelan masses.

PRINCETON This Christmas, like every Christmas, thousands of pilgrims and tourists will travel to the Middle East to celebrate the holiday in the land of the Bible. In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem will lead a midnight mass, while in Syria where some Christians still speak dialects of Aramaic, similar to the ancient language Jesus spoke celebrations are likely to be subdued, curtailed by the dangers of a war that is tearing the country apart.