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

Latin: patriarchia f, patriarchālis

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