ecumenical patriarch

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

ecumenical patriarchate, noun

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