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noun, plural pen·tar·chies.
1.
a government by five persons.
2.
a governing body of five persons.
3.
a federation of five nations, each under its own government or ruler.
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pentarchy
in early Byzantine Christianity, the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire. Formulated in the legislation of the emperor Justinian I (527-565), especially in his Novella 131, the theory received formal ecclesiastical sanction at the Council in Trullo (692), which ranked the five sees as Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
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