One patriarch is supposed to have relegated sacred scriptures for use in an outhouse.

Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron, is a revered patriarch of Islam.

In the Zen tradition, Ananda is considered to be the second Indian patriarch.

He is often depicted with the Buddha alongside Mahakashyapa, the first Indian patriarch.

However, in Coptic literature, St Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

In Coptic literature, St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

Their authority within their sui juris church is equal to that of a patriarch, but they receive fewer ceremonial honors.

Considered the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.

In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch ( see Patriarch ( Latter Day Saints )).

It is not known who first identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch.

Joseph Smith also identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch in 1839, stating that " an Evangelist is a Patriarch ".

There is no single patriarch with exclusive authority comparable to the Pope in Rome.

In all events, he was not a patriarch of Alexandria, as is affirmed in an early biography ( MPG, lxxxvi.

The fulfilment of the promise to each patriarch depends on having a male heir, and the story is constantly complicated by the fact that each prospective mother – Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel – is barren.

* John Wilkes: Owner of " Twelve Oaks " and patriarch of the Wilkes family, John Wilkes is educated, gracious and loving.

A letter by the patriarch Germanus written before 726 to two Iconoclast bishops says that " now whole towns and multitudes of people are in considerable agitation over this matter " but there is little written evidence of the debate.

Isaac (‎ ) is revered by Muslims to be a prophet and the patriarch of Islam.

Among Isaac's children was the follow-up Israelite patriarch Jacob, who too is venerated an Islamic prophet.

He is acknowledged as a patriarch of Islam.

* The twisted nerve ( gid hanasheh ): the sciatic nerve, as according to the Bible ( Genesis 32: 33 ) the patriarch Jacob's was damaged when he fought with an angel, cannot be eaten and is removed by nikkur

The expression " under the knout " is used to designate any harsh totalitarianism, and by extension its equivalent in a private context, e. g., a grim patriarch ruling his household ' with an iron rod '.

The Patriarchal blessings also include personal information which is revealed through a patriarch by the power of the priesthood.

* 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.

Among these is who is considered the patriarch of Russian geography: Mikhail Lomonosov who in the mid-1750s began working in the Department of Geography, Academy of Sciences to conduct research in Siberia, their contributions are notable in this regard, shows the soil organic origin, develops a comprehensive law on the movement of the ice that still governs the basics, thereby founding a new branch of Geography: Glaciology.

Among the Luo the larger agricultural production unit was the patriarch's extended family, mainly divided into a special assignment team led by the patriarch, and the teams of his wives, who, together with their children, worked their own lots on a regular basis.

Newspaper writers also often referred to the team as the Mackmen during their Philadelphia days, in honor of their patriarch.

After the 1995 season, in which the A's finished 67 – 77, the Haas family, with whom La Russa had a close personal relationship, sold the team after the death of patriarch Walter A. Haas, Jr. La Russa left to take over for Joe Torre at the helm of the St. Louis Cardinals.

On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

The three Greek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard originally formed the baptistery complex of the Constantinean church, the southern most chapel being the vestibule, the middle chapel being the actual baptistery and the north chapel being the chamber in which the patriarch chrismated the newly baptized before leading them into the rotunda north of this complex.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

Jacob (;, ; Septuagint ; ; " heel " or " leg-puller "), also later known as Israel (,,, " persevere with God "; Septuagint ; ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur ' an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

After taking Constantinople, Mehmed met with the Orthodox patriarch, Gennadios and worked out an arrangement in which the Orthodox Church, in exchange for being able to maintain its autonomy and land, accepted Ottoman authority.

He is involved in a current advertising campaign for Aviva in which he plays a variety of inspirational characters including a supporter taking his companions to away games, an elderly Welsh goth who collects antiques, and a deceased patriarch providing life insurance to his grieving family.

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

The apostle Peter delivers a sermon fifty days after the resurrection in which he states: " Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.

* November 16 – Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.

The Assyrian Christians on the other hand, came to similar conclusion but migrated in stages following each and every eruption of a political crisis with the regime in which boundaries they lived or following each conflict with their Muslim, Turkish, Arabs or Kurdish neighbors, or following the departure or expulsion of their patriarch Mar Shimon in 1933, first to Cyprus and then to the United States.

In the winter of the same year, Theodore's brother Joseph visited him in Constantinople, but refused to attend the Christmas mass in Hagia Sophia, at which the emperor, the patriarch, and the priest Joseph would have been present.

A new patriarch, Theodotos, was selected, and in April a synod was convened in Hagia Sophia, at which iconoclasm was re-introduced as dogma.

* Pope Liberius travels to Sirmium ( Pannonia ) late in the year and agrees to sign documents that effectively undo the Nicene Creed ( which has implicitly disavowed Arianism ) and to sever his relationship with the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is replaced as bishop of Alexandria by his Arian opponent George of Cappadocia.

He is succeeded by Pope Liberius as the 36th pope who immediately writes to Constantius II requesting a council at Aquileia to discuss the former Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who opposes the Arian belief to which the emperor subscribes.

Most scholars believe that he never taught at Magnaura or at any other university ; Vasileios N. Tatakes asserts that, even while he was patriarch, Photios taught " young students passionately eager for knowledge " at his home, which " was a center of learning ".

The legates of Pope John VIII attended, prepared to acknowledge Photios as legitimate patriarch, a concession for which the pope was much censured by Latin opinion.

Bishops may have the title of archbishop, metropolitan, and patriarch, all of which are considered honorifics.

* February beginning of the regency of Zoe Karbonopsina, mother of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII, for which she was competing with the patriarch Nicolas Mystikos ( end of the regency in 920 ).

The Torah traces the Israelites to the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham, who was renamed Israel after a mysterious incident in which he wrestles all night with God or an angel.

The split with the emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople was inevitable, from the western point of view, because they had embraced a view of a single, Divine (" Monophysite ") nature of Christ, which was a Christian heresy.

Three years later the patriarch came up with a slightly modified formula, which Heraclius released as the Ecthesis in 638.

Various festive processions were held there, and during Palm Sunday the famous " procession on a donkey " was arranged, in which the patriarch, sitting on a donkey, accompanied by the tsar and the people went out of Saint Basil's Cathedral in the Kremlin.