ecumenical patriarch
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Origin of ecumenical patriarch
First recorded in 1860–65
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The pope and the ecumenical patriarch affirmed in a joint declaration their churches’ orientation toward “the hoped-for restoration of full communion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The main spiritual guide for Eastern Orthodoxy, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople — Patriarch Bartholomew — holds much less authority than the pope, for example.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
It fought for years for recognition from the ecumenical patriarch in Istanbul before finally getting its wish in 2019.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2022
But in 1686, with Constantinople’s church weakened under Ottoman rule, the ecumenical patriarch delegated to the now-independent patriarch of Moscow the authority to ordain the metropolitan, or top bishop, of Kyiv.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
And now in the case of John the Faster they had gone so far that he prefixed his assumed title of ecumenical patriarch to the very documents which he sent to the Pope for revision.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
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