List of current popes and patriarchs
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This is a list of current Christian Popes and Patriarchs, including also others whose titles (as Major Archbishop or Catholicos, for example) are equivalent to the Patriarchal dignity.
Pope, Patriarchs, and Major Archbishops in the Catholic Church
In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis).[2]
Titular
The following patriarchs in the Latin Church are titular – that is, they have the title of patriarch for various historical reasons, but are not to be considered the same as the patriarchs and major archbishops who are heads of Churches sui iuris. These titular patriarchs are bishops of metropolitan archdioceses (except for Jerusalem) without other jurisdiction.
See | Bishop | Election |
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Jerusalem | Vacant since 24 June 2016 | |
Venice | Patriarch Francesco Moraglia | 2012 |
West Indies | Vacant since 31 August 1963 | |
Lisbon | Patriarch Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente | 2013 |
East Indies | Patriarch Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão | 2004 |
Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
See | Bishop | Election |
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Assyrian Church of the East | Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis III | 2015 |
Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East
See | Bishop | Election |
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Ancient Church of the East | Mar Addai II | 1970 |
Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church
See | Bishop | Election |
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Constantinople | Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I | 1991 |
Alexandria | Patriarch Theodoros II | 2004 |
Antioch | Patriarch John X (Yazigi) | 2012 |
Jerusalem | Patriarch Theophilus III | 2005 |
Moscow | Patriarch Kirill I | 2009 |
Georgia | Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II | 1977 |
Peć | Patriarch Irinej | 2010 |
Romania | Patriarch Daniel | 2007 |
Bulgaria | Patriarch Neofit | 2013 |
Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
See | Bishop | Election |
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Kiev | Patriarch Filaret | 1995 |
Patriarch of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church – Canonical
See | Bishop | Election |
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Kiev | Patriarch Moses | 2005 |
Patriarch of the Russian Old-Orthodox Church
See | Bishop | Election |
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Moscow | Patriarch Alexander | 2002 |
Patriarch of the Autocephalous Turkish Orthodox Church
See | Bishop | Election |
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Istanbul | Papa Eftim IV | 2002 |
Pope, Patriarchs, and Catholicoses in the Oriental Orthodox Church
Notes: All Oriental Orthodox churches are in full communion with each other except the following:
- The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Catholicos of India, head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India (an 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 Autocephalous Indian Orthodox Church.
- 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.
The head of the Indian Orthodox Church claims the title of Catholicos of the East which was originally the title of the Assyrian Patriarchs. The head of Indian Orthodox church was entitled the Maphrian by the Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church in 1912 but this was later discontinued.
Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church
See | Bishop | Election |
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Prague | Patriarch Tomáš Butta | 2006 |
Patriarch of the Apostolic Catholic Church (Philippines)
See | Bishop | Election |
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Apostolic Catholic Church | Patriarch John Florentine L. Teruel, OMJF | 1992 |
See also
References
- ^ Lucian Mureșan became Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia in 1994, but only became Major Archbishop in 2005. Lucian Cardinal Mureșan
- ^ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/general-docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_20060322_patriarca-occidente_fr.html | Communiqué concernant la suppression du titre «Patriarche d’Occident» dans l’Annuaire pontifical 2006
External links
- "Patriarchs". GCatholic.org.