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  Patriarch and Patriarchate
It has now four so-called patriarchs, of which two bear titles of sees that cannot by any rule of antiquity claim to be patriarchal at all, and the other two have not even the pretence of descent from the old lines.
Eastern patriarchs claim independence of any other patriarch as such; the Catholics obey the pope as pope, the Orthodox recognize the civil headship of Constantinople, the Armenians a certain primacy of honour in their catholicus.
The pope as Patriarch of the West (this is the commonest form; "Patriarch of Rome", or "Latin Patriarch" also occur) rules all Western Europe from Poland to Illyricum (the Balkan Peninsula), Africa west of Egypt, all other lands (America, Australia) colonized from these lands and all Western (Latin) missionaries and dwellers in the East.
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 Patriarch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and Supreme Leader of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church in the Near East
The Patriarch of Constantinople for the Armenians in Turkey
The Patriarch of Jerusalem and of Holy Zion for the Armenians in Israel, Palestine, Jordan and the Persian Gulf
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 Patriarch of the West Indies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patriarch of the West Indies is the leader of one of the Latin Rite Patriarchates of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
The Patriarchate of the West Indies was created on 11 May 1524 as part of the Roman Catholic Church of Spain, for the purposes of the latter's colonial missions in the Americas.
Unlike the other patriarchs, the Patriarch of the West Indies is not tied to a particular episcopal see; the title is usually given to whichever bishop was serving as the chaplain of the Spanish Army, the General Vicar of the Armies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriarch_of_the_West_Indies   (225 words)

  
 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of April 10, 1747
Elected patriarch of the West Indies and titular archbishop of Farsalo, January 20, 1734.
Nephew and coadjutor of Dionisio Delfino, patriarch of Aquileia (1699-1734).
Grand-nephew of Cardinal Giovanni Delfino (1667), patriarch of Aquileia, 1659-1699, of whom Dionisio was coadjutor.
www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/bios1747.htm   (1856 words)

  
 Patriarch of Venice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Patriarch of Venice is one of the few Patriarchs in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1457, upon the death of Domenico Michel, Patriarch of Grado, Pope Nicholas V suppressed the patriarchate and the Bishopric of Castello, incorporating them both in the new Patriarchate of Venice by the Papal Bull "Regis aeterni", thus Venice succeeded to the whole metropolitan jurisdiction of Grado's eccelsiastical province, including the sees of Dalmatia.
In 1807, by favour of the Napoleonic Viceroy of Italy, the Neapolitan Nicola Gambroni was promoted to the patriarchate and of his own authority transferred the patriarchal seat to the Basilica of St. Mark, uniting the two chapters; he reduced the number of parish churches from seventy to thirty.
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 CHRISTIANITY - URDAY.com
In ecclesiastical history and terminology, patriarch was the name given to the bishops of ancient and venerable sees, which held a position of primacy and had authority over the bishops of the neighbouring provinces.
Countries to the west of the Balkans came under the authority of the patriarch of the West, the Bishop of Rome who as successor of St Peter held the unique position of head of the universal Church.
Thus we have a patriarch of the West Indies who is the prelate of the highest rank in the Church of Spain, and a patriarch of the East Indies, who is the Archbishop of Goa.
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 Hierarchy
They are: the Patriarch of Venice (formerly Patriarch of Grado); the Patriarch of the West Indies, who resides in Spain; the Patriarch of the East Indies (Archbishop of Goa); and the Patriarch of Lisbon.
The Patriarchate of Aquileia was suppressed in 1751.
In the West the dignity of primate corresponds to that of exarch in the East.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/hierarchy.html   (3399 words)

  
 Patriarchs - Cilicia (Armenia)
Elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1999.10.02 (residence in Beirut, Lebanon)
Elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1982.08.05
Elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1976.07.03
www.gcatholic.com /hierarchy/patriarchs-armenian.htm   (136 words)

  
 Patriarchs and Major Archbishops
Before the Council of Nicaea, the bishops of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch had been exercising patriarchal authority over a large territory, and this right was confirmed in the Council of Nicaea in 325.
In addition to being the Patriarch of the West, the Bishop of Rome also exercises jurisdiction over the whole Church.
However, Pope Benedict XVI made the decision to drop the title, wishing to eliminate the notion that the Holy See represents the Church of "the West", and is therefore separate from the Eastern tradition.
www.gcatholic.com /hierarchy/patriarchs.htm   (351 words)

  
 The Religion Report: 8 March  2006  - Dr Muriel Porter and Anglican Bishop John McIntyre on the 'New ...
Lawrence Cross on the Patriarch of the West
As Patriarch of the West, in another way in Leo’s time, he really is the Patriarch in the West, if you know what I mean.
The Patriarch of Venice; there’s the Patriarch of Lisbon; the Patriarch of the West Indies; the Patriarch of the East Indies, which is an honorary title of the Archbishop of Goa.
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 patriarch, in Christian churches. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There were originally three patriarchates: the West, held by the bishop of Rome (the pope; see papacy), Alexandria, and Antioch.
Since then the three Orthodox patriarchs in Asia have had small, minority jurisdictions; they abandoned (12th cent.) their local rites in favor of the Byzantine.
In the Russian Orthodox Church the czar set up (1580) a patriarch of Moscow; the title was abolished (1721) by Peter the Great and revived in 1917 (see Orthodox Eastern Church).
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 Roman Catholic Church - Gurupedia
The Patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church is the Pope.
The Pope's Patriarchal authority (head of the Roman Catholic Church) and Papal authority (head of the Catholic Church communion) are not controversial.
Three other Roman Catholic bishops use the title Patriarch, the Patriarchs of Venice, Lisbon, and the West Indies, but they are not patriarchs in the strict sense, that is the head of a church, and are thus honorary patriarchs.
www.gurupedia.com /r/ro/roman_catholic_church.htm   (4112 words)

  
 Pontifications » Blog Archive » No more “Patriarch of the West”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If the Pope does not consider himself patriarch of the West, then it is no longer possible, for purposes of ecumenical progress with the Orthodox, to distinguish between the pope’s roles as universal pastor and as patriarch of the West.
The Western titular patriarchates are Lisbon and Venice; I think that there were also 16th/17th century titular Patriarchates of the East Indies and of the West Indies, but perhaps there have been suppressed, or a least not filled for many decades.
Such patriarchs could be responsible for a liturgy that would not have to claim to be the same as the Roman Rite.
catholica.pontifications.net /?p=1455   (2241 words)

  
 West Indies Cricket Blog » 2002 » November
In his first person column for PTI, West Indies skipper Carl Hooper says it’s unfair to pin the blame for the sixth ODI loss on openers Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds.
There is a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) bylaw which states that only persons who have played cricket at the highest level are eligible for election on its selection panel.
I found the Outlook India’s overall coverage of the Test series between India and the West Indies to be brilliant.
caribbeancricket.com /weblog/?m=200211   (1554 words)

  
 Holiness and Missions: book by Susan Fitkin
Joseph was the favorite son of the Patriarch Jacob, and became a faithful foreign missionary.
The Church of the Nazarene was born a second blessing holiness church with a definite, world-wide mission: "To Spread Scriptural Holiness Around the World." When the little holiness groups from the East, South and West came together to form the present organization, they already had twenty-five missionaries in five foreign countries.
In the British West Indies, Rev. and Mrs.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Obituary (1800-1903)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
October 7 - Gianfilippo Gallerati Scotti, archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica, prefect of the economics of the S.C. of Propaganda Fide.
November 30 - Edoardo Borromeo, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica, prefect of the S.C. of the Fabric of Saint Peter's.
September 16 - Edward Howard, bishop of Frascati, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and prtefect of the S.C. of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Patriarch and Patriarchate
Armenian writers call all their catholici patriarchs, back to St.
In 1781 Ignatius Giarve, Jacobite Bishop of Aleppo, was elected canonically Patriarch of Antioch.
(6) the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldees.
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 The Moravian Church EWI Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Amidst these influences, the Unitas Fratrum was founded, under the leadership of Gregory the Patriarch, with a three-fold ideal of faith, fellowship and freedom, and a strong emphasis on practical Christian life rather than on doctrinal thought or Church tradition.
It was one of the first organized religious bodies to establish primary and secondary schools for slaves in the West Indies.
The Eastern West Indies Province of the Moravian Church can be justly proud of its contributions to the religious, social and cultural heritage in the many islands of the Caribbean where it is located today.
www.candw.ag /~moravians/about.htm   (1287 words)

  
 Catholic-Pages.com | Discussion Forum - Eastern Catholic vs. Eastern Orthodox
The fourth and only other Minor Latin Catholic Patriarchate of the West was erected in the Spanish hierarchy in the early 16th century, as a consequence of Columbus' discovery of America.
After that date, Rome continued to appoint Patriarchs to the See, but none of them was able to take possession of it and, by the end of the 14th century, it was reduced to titular status.
The basic difference between the office of Patriarch in the Western and Eastern Churches is that all bishops in the Western Church, regardless of what office they hold, are subject to the Pope in both his papal role and his patriarchal role.
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 In the Light of the Law: One huge patriarchate or several smaller ones?
I leave to abler minds a discussion of the advantages or disadvantages, if any, that the recent relinquishment of the title "Patriarch of the West" by Pope Benedict XVI will have in regard to ecumenical affairs.
Although endowed with no special jurisdictional authority, there are actually five patriarchates in the Roman Church: Jerusalem, Lisbon, Venice, the West Indies, and the East Indies (Johnson, CLSA New Comm 577).
But the reductio ad obscuritatem that befell the western patriarchates (which were originally associated with their strategic locations as the New World was discovered) might have been a consequence of the fact that, when the pope himself is the patriarch in the west, what matters who else might have such a title?
www.canonlaw.info /2006/03/one-huge-patriarchate-or-several.html   (534 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 96139914
The "West Coast Negro," the predominant type that came to the New World, was marked by such characteristics as tall stature, woolly hair, broad features, full lips, little growth of hair on face or body, and a skin color approaching true fl.
Although slaves were used in mining gold on the mainland, particularly in New Granada, it was to the West Indies that slavery and the slave trade owed their initial enormous growth.
Even in their flush times, the West Indies had always shipped some of their fls to these mainland settlements of the British Crown, where the roots of the transplanted Africans ran as deep, if not as profusely, as in the Caribbean.
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Also by the laws of the Persians and of the people of the Upper Asia and of the Gauls, and by the laws of the West Indies, the parents have power of life and death over their children.
The Romans, even in their most popular estate, had this law in force, and this power of parents was ratified and amplified by the laws of the Twelve Tables, to the enabling of parents to sell their children two or three times over.
As under the Mercian law, the West Saxons were confined to the Saxon laws, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and some other places were vexed with Danish laws; the Northumbrians also had their laws apart.
www.constitution.org /eng/patriarcha.txt   (11257 words)

  
 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Conclaves by century
-Henry Benedict Mary Clement Stuart of York, archpriest of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's.
-Álvaro de Mendoza, patriarch of the West Indies, Spain.
Buenaventura de Córdoba Espínola de la Cerda, patriarch of the West Indies, Spain.
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 || Indian Christianity ||
  He is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ on earth, successor of St. Peter the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the state of Vatican City and the Servant of the Servants of God.
Today there are two kinds of patriarch in the Church: Eastern Patriarchs who function as the father and head of each church and Western Patriarch who are titular.
An Oriental Catholic Patriarch is the father and head of the Church.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Obituary (1800-1903)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
May 6 - Buenaventura de Córdoba Espínola de la Cerda, patriarch of the West Indies, Almoner of the King of Spain.
December 23 - Mario Marefoschi, archpriest of the patriarchal Lateran basilica, prefect of the S.C. of Rites.
December 10 - Francisco Javier Delgado, patriarch of the West Indies, archbishop of Seville, Spain.
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 Russian Patriarch urges to invest in Russia - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His Holiness Alexii II Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia has called his fellow country men to invest in their own country rather than in foreign football teams.
The Patriarch called the center 'the best in the world.' 'The center has everything including very good emergency and rehabilitation blocs,' stated Alexii II.
The Patriarch also brought to public's attention the fact that those medical facilities that had been built in times of the Revolution of 1917 still continue to serve people today.
english.pravda.ru /main/18/90/363/13008_patriarch.html   (446 words)

  
 Unofficial Home Page of The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
In the West, the successors of the apostles are called bishops (Greek, episkopos).
Ecumenical (Head) Patriarch is actively engaged in ecumenism, but some constituent churches are much more reticent, e.g.
The Church in the Province of the West Indies 770,000
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