(Turkif/b), letters-patent granted by the Turkish emperors to the Greek patriarch, bishops, &c. for the exercise of their ecclesiastical functions. This Baratz gives the bishops full power and authority to establish and depose the inferior clergy, and all other religious persons; to grant licenses for marriages, and issue out divorces; to collect the revenues belonging to the churches; to receive the pious legacies bequeathed to them; in short, to enjoy all the privileges and advantages belonging to their high station; and all this (as it is expressed in the baratz itself) "according to the vain and idle ceremonies of the Christians."