Office Christianity

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Patriarcha Oecumenicus Constantinopolitanus la

Highest position in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Also called patriarchate.org, bishop of Bizance, Patriarch of Constantinople

Who held it Compare

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

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Succession in office

Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

14 holders
5 gaps
4 steps named in the records
4 undated

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

until 38 CE Andrew the Apostle religious figure of the Christian faith
Gap about 341 years with no holder recorded

379 CE – 381 CE Gregory of Nazianzus Christian saint and theologian (c. 329 – 390)
Gap about 425 years with no holder recorded

12 April 806 CE – 13 March 815 CE Nikephoros I of Constantinople patriarch of Constantinople
Gap about 32 years with no holder recorded

847 CE – 858 CE Ignatius of Constantinople 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople
858 CE – 867 CE Photios I of Constantinople 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
867 CE – 877 CE Ignatius of Constantinople 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople
877 CE – 886 CE Photios I of Constantinople 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
25 December 886 CE – 17 May 893 CE Stephen I of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople
Gap about 523 years with no holder recorded

1416 CE – 1439 CE Joseph II of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople Has references
Gap about 482 years with no holder recorded

8 December 1921 CE – 20 September 1923 CE Meletios Archbishop of Athens (1918–1920), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1921–1923) and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1926–1935)

No dates recorded 4

Dates unrecorded Macedonius I of Constantinople 4th-century Greek bishop of Constantinople
Dates unrecorded Nicholas II of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople
Dates unrecorded Nestorius Christian theologian (c. 386–c. 451)
Dates unrecorded Philotheus I of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople