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Definition of Patriarchal dispensation

Patriarchal dispensation
Patriarchal Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. [Cf. F. patriarcal.] 1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church. 2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. --Tennyson. 3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross. Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.

Meaning of Patriarchal dispensation from wikipedia

- use the term "Noahide law" in reference to this period of dispensation. Promise or Patriarchal Rule – From Abraham to Moses. Ends with the refusal to enter...
- In theology, one meaning of the term dispensation is as a distinctive arrangement or period in history that forms the framework through which God relates...
- rights; Fourth: that slavery was never supposed to exist under patriarchal dispensation; Fifth: that slavery never existed under Hebrew Biblical law; Sixth:...
- Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Istanbul (Turkey) Melkite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait...
- age of the Church, between the age of Law and the Millennial age, see Dispensation (period) calendar eras: Calendar era#Christian era the Dionysian era...
- patriarchal church is a full-grown form of an Eastern Catholic church. It is 'a community of the Christian faithful joined together by' a Patriarchal...
- curias range from the relatively simple diocesan curia; to the larger patriarchal curias; to the curia of various Catholic particular churches; to the...
- exarchate belongs, may be recognized as canonically valid. A canonical dispensation was obtained from the Catholic Archbishop of Moscow, Monsignor Paolo...
- bishops before they are made cardinals, but some are granted a papal dispensation. There are no strict criteria for elevation to the College of Cardinals...
- consecrated a bishop, if not one already, but some ask for and obtain dispensation from this requirement. It is rare that the Pope will appoint Cardinals...