Patriarchate
PATRIARCHATE, or Nesiʾut, was the leading Jewish communal office in the Late Roman and Byzantine Empires, emerging soon after the destruction of the city and Temple of Jerusalem in...
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A court Tuesday backed Turkey's long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world'...
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A groundbreaking meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Orthodox patriarch could take place within a year, a senior Vatican cardinal said Thursday, according to the news agency of the It...
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Patriarch Alexy II on Tuesday consecrated 18 newly cast brass bells destined for Harvard University in a trade that will see the originals returned to Russia nearly 80 years after they were saved f...
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The Orthodox archbishop of Cyprus is offering himself as a mediator to try to set up a groundbreaking meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, an Italian news...
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Chances of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Patriarch Alexy II at a neutral location are improving, a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church was quoted as telling a German m...
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Monday called for tighter controls over the content of TV and radio broadcasts, saying they were promoting "vicious behavior."The comments by Patriarch Al...
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98...
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The Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, recently named Iraq's first cardinal, said Tuesday that rising violence has made life worse for Iraqi Christians since the U.S.-led invasion, but he is optimistic...
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Amman (dpa) - The Jordanian cabinet has withdrawn recognition of
Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilus III for his failure
to retrieve the church properties that i...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem called on
Israeli, Palestinian and international leaders to push for peace, but
also implored armed Palestinian factions t...
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Patriarchate
Court rejects Orthodox Patriarch status
