Hence, the idea of a "pentarchy" - rule by five patriarchs - must be reconsidered without the biases of the intense nationalism we find in some quarters of modern Orthodoxy today. From Wordnik.com. [orrologion] Reference
But it fcems that, 'fetting afide the pentarchy, and. From Wordnik.com. [Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ...] Reference
The restored pentarchy was not destined to last very long. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
And, according to this theory, that pentarchy, which commenced with Slane, could not have ended but with Roderic. From Wordnik.com. [Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ...] Reference
The generality of the citizens had declared themselves against a pentarchy devoid of power, justice, and morality, and which had become the sport of faction and intrigue. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 03] Reference
This peace -- the fruit of Marengo and Hohenlinden -- restored France to that honourable position which had been put in jeopardy by the feeble and incapable government of the pentarchy and the reverses of 1799. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 05] Reference
The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Napoleon]
The Orthodox rejoiced; the new patriarchate was admitted everywhere as fifth, after Jerusalem, leaving the first place to Constantinople; they explained that now the sacred pentarchy, the (not really very) ancient order of five patriarchs, was restored; Moscow had arisen to atone for the fall of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
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