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patriarch

英/pˈætɹɪˌɑːk/
美/ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹk/
01n.

创办人, 家长, 元老, 教长, (天主教)教皇

title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem); the male head of family or tribe; any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race; a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself