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PatriarchofConstantinople

The ecumenical patriarch (Greek: Η Αυτού Θειοτάτη Παναγιότης, ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Νέας Ρώμης και Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης, His Most Divine All-Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch; Turkish: Konstantinopolis ekümenik patriği) is the archbishop of Istanbul (traditionally Constantinople, referred to figuratively as New Rome) and ranks as primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that make up the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is regarded as the representative and spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians worldwide. The term "ecumenical" is a historical reference to the Ecumene, a Greek designation for the civilized world, i.e. the Roman/Byzantine Empire, and it stems from Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon.

Within the five apostolic sees of the Pentarchy, the ecumenical patriarch is regarded as the successor of Andrew the Apostle.

Patriarch of Constantinople in Agent of Byzantium[]

The Patriarch of Constantinople was made the highest officer of all Christian churches in the 7th century, when the Roman Empire, under Constans II, completely subjugated the Italian Papacy.

Eutropios, the reigning Patriarch in 1317, presided over the ecumenical council which sought a solution to the image-breaking crisis.[1]

Patriarch of Constantinople in "Two Thieves"[]

A large number of people who lived and died in the Eastern Roman Empire in the 10th and 11th centuries, were resurrected with a physical age of 25 in a small area of Riverworld. These people founded the state of New Constantinople, and reinvented many political and religious offices of the old Empire, including that of Patriarch. Evstratios Garidas, who held the office for three years in his original life, was chosen to head the new version, once again under his old master, Basileus Alexios Komnenos.

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  1. "Images," generally.
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