Patriarch (disambiguation)

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Patriarch is the highest rank of bishop of the autocephalous churches in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, some Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris, and the Assyrian Church of the East; and the highest rank attached to a see under the Pope of Rome in the Latin Catholic church.

Patriarch may also refer to:

• Patriarchs (Bible), prominent figures in the Hebrew scriptures, especially Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• Patriarch, the leader of a patriarchy
• Patriarch (Latter Day Saints), the Melchizedek Priesthood office in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Patriarch (Buddhism), a historic teacher who transferred the teachings
• Patriarch (magazine), a defunct American magazine that espoused Biblical patriarchy
• Patriarch, a character in the video game Killing Floor
• Patriarch, the sailing ship used to transport the Whitbread Engine

See also

• (patriarch-)Catholicos
• Patriarchate, the see and jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical Patriarch
• Nasi or Patriarch of the Jews, the head of the Sanhedrin of Israel from 191 BCE to 425 CE
• Kzinti Patriarch, a fictional character in Larry Niven's Known Space series
• Supreme Patriarch or Sangharaja, a title given to senior Theravada Buddhist monks
• Patriarchalism, a seventeenth-century political theory of absolute monarchy in England
• Matriarch (disambiguation), the corresponding female term to some of these senses
• Pater familias, the head of a Roman family.