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

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

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

    847 CE – 858 CE Ignatius of Constantinople 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople
  5. 858 CE – 867 CE Photios I of Constantinople 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
  6. 867 CE – 877 CE Ignatius of Constantinople 9th century Patriarch of Constantinople
  7. 877 CE – 886 CE Photios I of Constantinople 9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
  8. 25 December 886 CE – 17 May 893 CE Stephen I of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople
  9. Gap about 523 years with no holder recorded

    1416 CE – 1439 CE Joseph II of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople
  10. 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)

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