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== Ecumenical Patriarch ==
 
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The title "Ecumenical Patriarch" belongs exclusively to the Archbishop of Constantinople. The Church of St. George is home to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 1991,Patriarch Bartholomew was elected the 270th Archbishop of Costantinople
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The title "Ecumenical Patriarch" dates from the sixth century and belongs exclusively to the Archbishop of Constantinople. At the 4th Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451), the Archbishop of Constantinople was given "equal privileges" to the Bishop of Rome.
 
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The Church of St. George in the Phanar (Fener) is the fifth Patriarchal church in Constantinople and home to the Ecumenical Patriarchate since the fifteenth century.
 
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In October, 1991. Patriarch Bartholomew (b. 1940) was elected the 270th Archbishop of the historic throne of Constantinople, the Byzantine name for present-day Istanbul.
 
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Revision as of 04:33, March 21, 2007

Ecumenical Patriarch

The title "Ecumenical Patriarch" belongs exclusively to the Archbishop of Constantinople. The Church of St. George is home to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 1991,Patriarch Bartholomew was elected the 270th Archbishop of Costantinople