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In 2006, Benedict XVI renounced the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis). [1] In 2024, Pope Francis reinstated the title of "Patriarch of the West" (Patriarcha Occidentis), reversing the decision by the previous Pope Benedict XVI; the title reinstatement was meant to bring closer ties to the other Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox faith.
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Eastern patriarchates of the Pentarchy, after the Council of Chalcedon (451). Patriarchate (/ ˈ p eɪ t r i ɑːr k ɪ t,-k eɪ t /, UK also / ˈ p æ t r i-/; [1] Ancient Greek: πατριαρχεῖον, patriarcheîon) is an ecclesiological term in Christianity, designating the office and jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
The list at the Greek Archdiocese website also includes a parish in New Jersey. Archived 2007-09-20 at the Wayback Machine ) The current abbot is Metropolitan Paisios (Loulourgas) of Tyana , who led the monastery and its metochia into the Ecumenical Patriarchate along with the deputy abbot, Bishop Vikentios (Malamatenios) of Apameia .
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There have also been Latin Patriarchates for the remainder of the original pentarchy, namely Constantinople, Alexandria and Antioch, but these were all abolished in 1964. [47] There are, however, various Eastern Catholic Patriarchs who lay claim to these sees.
It stated that the title "Patriarch of the West" had become "obsolete and practically unusable" when the term the West comprises Australia, New Zealand and North America in addition to Western Europe, and that it was "pointless to insist on maintaining it" given that, since the Second Vatican Council, the Latin Church, for which "the West" is ...
President of the Lutheran World Federation: Archbishop Musa Filibus. [5] Although the president does not have any jurisdiction outside of his own regional church, as president of the LWF he oversees the meetings of the leaders of other regional churches. Chairman of the Pentecostal World Fellowship: Dr. William Wilson