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| | Supreme Patriarch - encyclopedia article about Supreme Patriarch. |
 | | The Supreme Patriarch or Sangharaja (Thai: พระสังฆราช) is the head of the order of Buddhist monks in Thailand. | | | pope is the Catholic Patriarch and Bishop of Rome, and leader of the Catholic Church. | | | It was first established in 1782 at the founding of the Chakri dynasty by King Rama I. The Supreme Patriarch has legal authority to oversee both of Thailand's Theravada sub-orders, the Maha Nikaya and the Thammayut Nikaya, as well as the small minority of Mahayana Buddhists in the country. |
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| | Ecumenical Patriarch - definition of Ecumenical Patriarch in Encyclopedia |
| | His titular position is Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, one of the sixteen autocephalous Churches, and he is one of the original four Eastern Orthodox patriarchs. | | | Within Roman Catholic administration, it was not until the Roman Catholic Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 that the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople was recognized as having such status; in 1439 the Council of Florence (not recognized by the Orthodox Church as ecumenical) gave it to the Greek patriarch. | | | In this capacity he serves as spiritual leader and primary spokesperson for the Communion (hence "first"), but has no official authority over the Patriarchs or over the other fifteen of the sixteen autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches (hence "among equals"). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Patriarch and Patriarchate |
| | Uniat patriarchs are elected by a synod of all the bishops of the patriarchate and confirmed by the Holy See. | | | 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 precedence among patriarchs is determined by the rank of their see, according to the old order of the five patriarchates, followed by Cilicia, then Babylon. |
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| | ipedia.com: Patriarchy Article |
| | The word patriarch also denotes any of certain high-ranking bishops in some hierarchical churches; see patriarch. | | | He has no similar authority over his married daughters, who are under the authority of the patriarchs of the families into which they have married. | | | A patriarch (from Greek: patria means family; archy means rule) is a male head of an extended family exercising autocratic authority, or, by extension, a member of the ruling class or government of a society controlled by senior men. |
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| | The British Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch | | | the official Web server of the Moscow Patriarchate |
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