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**redDoodia** · 11-18-2007, 02:38 AM

Clearly, the Ecumenical Patriarchate ought to be moved to New York ...

Not only is he Ecumenical Patriarch but also Archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul). He heads an albeit small flock in his city and while he is able to so, I am sure he would want to remain with his people.

I think the problem here is the tendency to raise a Patriarch to the equivalent of a Catholic Pope. Surely, authority primarily resides with the diocesan bishop, not some (often) distant patriarch? A patriarch's primacy within the patriarchate, in my opinion, is not as supreme ruler but rather primus inter pares.

With love in Christ

Alex

11-18-2007, 02:38 AM	#30
redDoodia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	Clearly, the Ecumenical Patriarchate ought to be moved to New York ... Not only is he Ecumenical Patriarch but also Archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul). He heads an albeit small flock in his city and while he is able to so, I am sure he would want to remain with his people. I think the problem here is the tendency to raise a Patriarch to the equivalent of a Catholic Pope. Surely, authority primarily resides with the diocesan bishop, not some (often) distant patriarch? A patriarch's primacy within the patriarchate, in my opinion, is not as supreme ruler but rather primus inter pares. With love in Christ Alex
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