ecumenical patriarch
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noun
the patriarch of Constantinople, regarded as the highest dignitary of the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Origin of ecumenical patriarch
First recorded in 1860–65
OTHER WORDS FROM ecumenical patriarch
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