How many syllables in patriarch?

There are 3 syllables in the word patriarch.

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patriarch (noun):: one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the hebrew people; title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem).

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