Sentences with phrase «ecumenical patriarch»

Although not recognized by canonical autocephalous Orthodox churches, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church had broken off from the Moscow Patriarchate soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, a development encouraged both by the communists and by the ecumenical patriarch, who hoped that the Soviets would save him from the Turks.

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The Ecumenical Patriarchate has a strong record of influence over Jerusalem: In 2008, Bartholomew successfully removed Jerusalem's presence in the US, and in 2005, he led a pan-Orthodox council that deposed the previous patriarch.

It was, therefore, an occasion tinged with the ambiguities and quirks of history when Patriarchs Demetrios and Diodoros — the former in search of ecumenical unity, the latter preoccupied with preserving Greek tribal hegemony in a scandal - ridden church — embraced in Jerusalem.

To become Orthodox entails accepting the authority of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, the Bible, the patriarchs and bishops, etc..