patriarchal church
English
Noun
patriarchal church (plural patriarchal churches)
- (Roman Catholicism) Each of the five great basilicae of Rome, viz. the Lateran, St Peter’s, St Paul’s outside the Walls, St Mary Major’s, and St Lawrence’s outside the Walls.
Translations
each of the five great basilicae of Rome
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