List of current patriarchs

See also: List of religious leaders in 2009#Christianity and List of current Christian leaders

This is a list of current Christian Popes and Patriarchs.

Pope, Patriarchs, and Major Archbishops in the Catholic Church

See	Bishop	Election
Rome	Pope Benedict XVI	2005
Alexandria of the Copts	Patriarch Antonios Cardinal Naguib	2006
Antioch, Alexandria & Jerusalem of the Greek Melkites	Patriarch Gregory III Laham	2000
Antioch of the Syrians	Patriarch Mar Ignatius Joseph III Yonan	2009
Antioch of the Maronites	Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi	2011
Jerusalem	Patriarch Fouad Twal	2008
Babylon of the Chaldeans	Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Cardinal Delly	2003
Cilicia of the Armenians	Patriarch Nersès Bédros XIX Tarmouni	1999
Venice	Patriarch Francesco Moraglia	2012
West Indies	vacant since 1963
Lisbon	Patriarch José da Cruz Cardinal Policarpo	1998
East Indies	Patriarch Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão	2004
Kiev-Galicia	Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk	2011
Ernakulam-Angamaly	Major Archbishop George Alencherry	2011
Trivandrum	Major Archbishop Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis	2007
Făgăraş and Alba Iulia	Major Archbishop Lucian Mureșan	1994

Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

See	Bishop	Election
Assyrian Church of the East	Mar Khanania Dinkha IV	1976

Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East

See	Bishop	Election
Ancient Church of the East	Mar Addai II	1970

Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church

See	Bishop	Election
Brazil	vacant since death of Dom Luis on October 29, 2009

Pope and Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Constantinople (New Rome)	Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew I	1991
Alexandria	Pope & Patriarch Theodoros II	2004
Antioch	Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim)	1979
Jerusalem	Patriarch Theophilus III	2005
Moscow	Patriarch Kirill I	2009
Georgia	Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II	1977
Serbia	Patriarch Irinej	2010
Romania	Patriarch Daniel	2007
Bulgaria	Patriarch Maxim I	1971

Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate

See	Bishop	Election
Kiev	Patriarch Filaret	1995

Patriarch of the Russian Old-Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Moscow	Patriarch Alexander	2002

Pope, Patriarchs, and Catholicoses in the Oriental Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Alexandria	Pope & Patriarch Shenouda III	1971
Antioch	Patriarch Ignatius Zakka Iwas I	1980
Armenia	Catholicos Karekin II Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians	1999
Ethiopia	Patriarch Catholicos Paulos I	1992
East	Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II	2010
Jerusalem	Titular Patriarch Torkom I	1990
Cilicia	Titular Catholicos Aram I	1995
Constantinople	Titular Patriarch Mesrob II	1998
Eritrea	Patriarch Dioskoros	2007
India	Titular Catholicos Baselios Thomas I	2002

Note: the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Catholicos of India, head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India (Autonomous "part of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch") are not in communion with the Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan of the Indian Orthodox Church (Autocephalous "Independent"); likewise, the Catholicos of the East, the head of the Indian Orthodox Church is not in communion with the Catholicos of India, head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India; all the others are in full communion with each other.

Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church

See	Bishop	Election
Prague	Patriarch Tomáš Butta	2006

See also

• Patriarchs
• Giga-Catholic Information on all Catholic Patriachs