Oecumenical patriarch
The oecumenical title of Patriarche is traditionally carried by the bishop (orthodoxe) of Constantinople (current town of Istanbul in Turkey). This Diocese, one of oldest of Christendom, was set up in Patriarchate into 451.
The oecumenical Patriarch currently in function is:
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Its Holiness Bartholomée I {{er}}, Archbishop of Constantinople, new Rome and oecumenical Patriarche . Bartholomée Ier is the chief of the orthodoxe Église of Constantinople.
However, the governments successive Turkish always refused the use of the oecumenical title, considering that the patriarch is only the religious leader of orthodoxe of Turkey, as well as the name of Constantinople, that the Othomans re-elected Istambul.
Prerogatives of the oecumenical Patriarch
See too
Related articles
- List of the primacies of the orthodoxe Church of Constantinople
External bonds
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OrthodoxWiki - Prerogatives off the Ecumenical Patriarchate
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