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A patriarchate is the office or jurisdiction of a patriarch. A "patriarch", as the term is used here, is either one of the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, of whom there were originally four, but now nine; one of the ten highest-ranking bishops of Catholicism – the Roman Pope, the seven "patriarchs of the east", and the bishops of Lisbon and Venice; or one of the specific patriarchs of the various Oriental Orthodox and Nestorian churches.The original four Catholic patriarchs of the east, and the original four Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, sat in Constantinople (now called Istanbul, but still called Constantinople in this particular ecclesiastical usage), Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. The Patriarch of Antioch moved to Damascus several centuries ago, but is still called the Patriarch of Antioch. Eastern Orthodoxy recognizes not only its own patriarchs, but also the pope, in his role as Christian patriarch of RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman, as among the patriarchs whose presence at an ecumenical councilIn Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, an ecumenical council (Greek (Oikumene), which literally means "inhabited", i. all places that are are being inhabited by live beings, therefore "World-wide" or "General") is a meeting of the bishops of the whole chur is a necessary condition for the council's ecumenicityThe word ecumenical comes from a Greek word that means pertaining to the whole world. It primarily describes a pluralist religious ethic, though in Christianity it only applies to the Christian church, and describes the pursuit of unity in the Christian w and infallibilityInfallibility is the ability to be free from error (obtain certainty). The two classical examples are, "when you feel pain, you can't be wrong" and "when you say one plus one equals two, you're infallible. Other Definitions Infallibility is often defined.
A patriarchate has "legal personality" in some jurisdictions, i.e. is treated in some legal juridictions as a corporate entityA legal entity or artificial person is a legal construct with legal rights or duties such as the legal capacity to enter into contracts and sue or be sued. It is an entity usually an organization such as a corporation or a government ultimately composed o. For example, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem filed a lawsuit in New York, decided in 1999, against Christie's Auction HouseChristie's is a world famous auction house located in London, England. It was founded on December 5, 1766 by James Christie. Christie's quickly established a reputation for conducting some the greatest auctions of the 18th and 19th centuries. During this, disputing the ownership of the Archimedes PalimpsestThe Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment, in which a copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived in the third century BC, was made in the 10th century. In the 12th.
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