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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
Overview
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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
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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 -
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
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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
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