Patrikhane - The Other Pope
The Patriacrh of Constantinople once held supremacy, along with the Bishop of Rome, over half the Christian world. Under the Ottoman Empire he was the spiritual leader of nearly %40 of the Empire’s subjects who held the Greek Orthodox faith.
Nearly moribund toward the 1985, the Patriacrhate has regained some clout in recent years under the energetic leadership of His Eminence the Patriarch Bartholomeos
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