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.

Further, it is said that Tuitsch a German patriarch is none other than Shem himself ( see Assyrian-German theory ).

The legends of Prester John ( also Presbyter Johannes ) were popular in Europe from the 12th through the 17th centuries, and told of a Christian patriarch and king said to rule over a Christian nation lost amidst the Muslims and pagans in the Orient.

According to tradition, the second patriarch of the Pure Land school, Shandao, is said to have practiced this day and night without interruption, each time emitting light from his mouth.

The Amidah is preferably said facing Jerusalem, as the patriarch Jacob proclaimed, " And this is the gateway to Heaven ," where prayers may ascend.

He is even said to have recommended family patriarch, Richard Bellamy, to be offered a peerage.

Manute Bol's family patriarch, Bol Bol Chol, said, " This man is not an ordinary man.

智顗, 538-597 CE ), who is traditionally figured as the fourth patriarch of Tiantai, who is said to have practiced the Lotus Samādhi and to have become enlightened quickly.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a patriarchal blessing is given when an authorized patriarch ( a man ordained to the priesthood office of patriarch ) places his hands on the head of the recipient and pronounces said blessing.

According to the eighth century CE historian Sima Zhen's commentary to the second century BCE Shiji ( or, Records of the Grand Historian ), Shennong is a kinsman of the Yellow Emperor and is said to be an ancestor, or a patriarch, of the ancient forebears of the Chinese.

It is said to have been founded by Nangui, a 14th-century Senufo patriarch and still is the capital of the Senufo people.

The king was accordingly displeased, and reluctantly supported the elected candidate ( after applying a hefty fine to him ), and said, " Patriarch he is and patriarch he shall be -- but never again do I allow another election.

According to the medieval Georgian Chronicles, the city was built by the legendary patriarch Mtskhetos, one of five sons of Kartlos, the legendary patriarch of the Georgian nation ( who was in turn said to be a son of Torgom, the Georgian spelling of Biblical Togar Mah, son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah ).

Shacharis is said to have been established by the patriarch Abraham when he prayed in the morning.

* Shennong ( 神农 ), also identified as Yandi ( 炎帝 ), a divine patriarch said to have taught the ancient Chinese the practices of agriculture.

Company patriarch Jack Londen later said that he'd bought the station as a 50th anniversary gift for his wife, Dodie.

It was also at this time that she received her patriarchal blessing from the Boston Stake patriarch ( she was and is a Mormon ), that said things that had a role in her decision to study law.

Another hypothesis derives it from " Castle of Euphemius ", possibly referring to the 5th century Byzantine patriarch by that name or, more likely, to the 9th century Euphemius of Sicily, a legendary figure who was said to have brought Muslim mercenaries to Sicily in 827 to help defend his throne, only to have them conquer the island for themselves.

Isaac was the only patriarch who stayed in Canaan during his whole life and though once he tried to leave, God told him not to do so.

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

William does not mention exactly what happened during these embassies, but he probably discussed the Byzantine alliance with Jerusalem, and Manuel's protectorate over Antioch, where, due to pressure from Rome and Jerusalem, the emperor was forced to give up his attempts to restore a Greek patriarch.

* Pope Julius I gives refuge at Rome to the Alexandrian patriarch Athanasius, who is deposed and expelled during the First Synod of Tyre ( see 335 ).

Photios continued his career as a writer during the reign of Emperor Leo VI who probably rehabilitated his reputation within the next few years ; in his Epitaphios on his brothers, a text probably written in 888, the Byzantine emperor presents Photios favorably, portraying him as the legitimate archbishop, and the instrument of ultimate unity, an image that jars with his attitude to the patriarch in 886 – 887.

He largely moved away from historical parts when he played an Italian vineyard owner in California in They Knew What They Wanted ( 1940 ); a South Seas patriarch in The Tuttles of Tahiti ( 1942 ); and an American admiral during World War II in Stand by for Action ( 1942 ).

Theophylact was the third patriarch of Constantinople to be the son of an emperor and the only one to have become patriarch during the reign of his father.

Base silver coin of Nemfidius, patriarch of Provence, 700-710, minted at Marseille during the reign of Pepin of Herstal.

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.

Michael now reversed his uncle's decisions, and recalled the nobles and courtiers who had been exiled during the previous reign, including the future patriarch Michael Keroularios and the general George Maniakes.

Manuel forced him to a humiliating visit to Constantinople, during which he renewed his oath of homage and promised to acknowledge a Greek patriarch.

In 374, during the reign of the emperor Valens, in the persecution carried on by Lucius, Arian patriarch of Alexandria, Maximus was flogged, and banished to the Oasis, on account of his zeal for orthodoxy and the aid he offered to those who suffered in the same cause.

Here he met Peter the Iberian, who had been ordained bishop of Gaza by Theodosius, the Non-Chalcedonian monk, during his usurpation of the patriarch of Jerusalem.

Saint Babylas ( died 253 ) was a patriarch of Antioch ( 237 – 253 ), who died in prison during the Decian persecution.

Although the term papash ( literally, ' pope ') is unusual, and the normal Syriac name for China is Beth Sinaye, not Sinistan, there is no reason to doubt that Adam was the metropolitan of the Nestorian ecclesiastical province of Beth Sinaye, created half a century earlier during the reign of the patriarch Sliba-zkha ( 714 – 28 ).

A Softbank marketing campaign, beginning in June 2007, featuring a dog named " Otosan " who acts as patriarch for a human family known as the " Shiratos ", has been one of Japan's most successful ad campaigns during that time.

The position carried no defined duties, but the incumbent would generally serve as the patriarch's private secretary, and might also be used by the Emperor to limit the movements and actions of a troublesome patriarch ( as was the case during the reign of Constantine VI, when several of George's colleagues were set as guards over Patriarch Tarasius ).

As patriarch, he established a monastic seminary, met with Pope John Paul II during the Roman Pope's trip to Syria in 2001, and installed numerous metropolitans, including Baselios Thomas I as Catholicos of India.

Suzuki contends that Ch ' an's growth in popularity during the 7th and 8th centuries attracted criticism that it had " no authorized records of its direct transmission from the founder of Buddhism " and that Ch ' an historians made Bodhidharma the 28th patriarch of Buddhism in response to such attacks.

Judah III held the office of patriarch probably during the close of the third and the beginning of the fourth century.

This latter tradition is attributed to the patriarch of the Tong family, who was among the school's first graduates and supposedly gave a lei to a fellow graduate who was without one during their commencement ceremony.

He was one of the second generation of Tannaim, who served under the patriarch Gamliel II of Yavneh, during the last two decades of the 1st century CE.

Feodor Nikitich Romanov (, ; 1553 – 1 October 1633 ) was a Russian boyar who after temporary disgrace rose to become patriarch of Moscow as Filaret (, ), and became de-facto ruler of Russia during the reign of his son, Mikhail Feodorovich.