Council,  Canon

 1   1    | excommunicate. ~Canon 6: Concerning patriarchs and their jurisdiction. ~
 2   1”,6 |            old customs of the three Patriarchs are to be kept in vogue,
 3   1”,6 |             the privileges of these Patriarchs are to be preserved, but
 4   1”,6 |  metropolitans. What is said of the Patriarchs in existence is also true
 5   1”,6 |             true of the independent Patriarchs, then and now — that is
 6   1”,6 |           to say, the autocephalous Patriarchs, such as those of Asia,
 7   1”,6 |        subordinate to the other two Patriarchs, of Constantinople and of
 8   1”,6 |         metropolitans it names only patriarchs. But the first interpretation
 9   1”,7 |       occasion is numbered with the patriarchs, and never with the metropolitans.
10   2”,2 |     Balsamon interpreted it, nor to Patriarchs[50] alone, but to both these
11   2”,2 |            Those who have served as Patriarchs”), in order that each of
12   2”,2 |              in addition, that both patriarchs and metropolitans alike
13   2”,2 |      affairs of each diocese of the patriarchs, the diocesan synod shall
14   2”,3 |          preceding Canon dealt with patriarchs as a group (and especially
15   4”,28|         order among the rest of the Patriarchs. In exactly the same way
16   5    |            of them having served as Patriarchs of Constantinople; followed
17   6    |             Peter, all of whom were Patriarchs of Constantinople; Honorius
18   7    |             as well as those of the Patriarchs and of the Fathers who attended
19   7”,35|             we speak about the five Patriarchs.~ ~ ~
20   7”,59|          shut up in prisons by many Patriarchs and Bishops. See also Ap.
21   8”,23|         Little. For seeing that the Patriarchs had formerly been called
22   8”,23|            indeed by Justinian that patriarchs were actually and officially
23   8”,23|      actually and officially called Patriarchs. This noun signifies two
24   8”,23|          These prelates were called Patriarchs not by reason of any superiority
25   8”,23|            being equal to the other Patriarchs. That is why, in writing
26   8”,23|             only in connection with Patriarchs, but also in connection
27   8”,23|         other right that belongs to Patriarchs and Metropolitans with respect
28   8”,23|          the Canons are speaking of patriarchs. Moreover, John of Antioch,
29   8”,23|    Concerning the honor accorded to Patriarchs by the Canons,” and the
30   8”,23|           of Alexandria and of Rome patriarchs here (Dositheus, ibid.).
31   8”,23|         Dositheus, ibid.). Only the Patriarchs were privileged to wear
32   8”,23|  distributed the churches among the Patriarchs by the present Canon, yet
33   8”,23|        those whom the latter called patriarchs, that it appeared reasonable
34   8”,23|           ones whom Socrates called patriarchs are referred to by Sozomen
35   8”,23|         they were improperly called patriarchs, instead of exarchs.~ ~  [
36   8”,23|            parishes of two or three Patriarchs taken together, as is said
37   8”,23|        neither can the decisions of Patriarchs be appealed.” That which
38   8”,23|             that this Council calls Patriarchs exarchs of the diocese,
39   8”,23|           of the diocese, since the Patriarchs received full authority
40   8”,23|          being Popes and Ecumenical Patriarchs, they had no higher court
41   8”,23|        instance, since decisions of Patriarchs are not subject to appeal,
42   8”,23|        questions is the task of the patriarchs and priests and teachers
43   8”,23|           of the diocese” the other Patriarchs, while to the Patriarch
44   8”,23|          supreme judge over all the Patriarchs. Macarius was followed also
45   8”,23|           common judge over all the Patriarchs, and ahead of even the Patriarch
46   8”,23|         must be taken from the four Patriarchs of the inhabited earth (
47   8”,23|             districts) of the other Patriarchs, nor has he been given by
48   8”,23|             any Patriarch or of the Patriarchs in the plural. For Justinian
49   8”,23|       Injunction: “The decisions of Patriarchs cannot be appealed;” and
50   8”,23|           the decisions rendered by Patriarchs.” So, considering the fact
51   8”,23|        Canons, the decisions of all Patriarchs are insusceptible of appeal,
52   8”,23|            heads of the rest of the Patriarchs, how could the emperors
53   8”,23|        Constantinople can judge the Patriarchs, and that he can review
54   8”,23|             common judge of all the Patriarchs and even of the Pope himself.
55   8”,23|       privilege, how is it that the patriarchs of Constantinople, when
56   8”,23|        under any of the rest of the Patriarchs. For it is only an ecumenical
57   8”,23|            most common judge of all Patriarchs, as we have said, and there
58   8”,23|           authority because various Patriarchs and Prelates used to come
59   8”,23|            first in order among the Patriarchs, the other Patriarchs coming
60   8”,23|           the Patriarchs, the other Patriarchs coming second, third, etc.
61   8”,23|      differentiation from the other Patriarchs. The appellation of “All-holiest”
62   8”,23|        Jerusalem, and, in fact, all Patriarchs in common were called “All-Holiest”
63   8”,23|    Eutychius were called Ecumenical Patriarchs by Justinian in his Novels
64   8”,23|       Mauricius, and the succeeding Patriarchs and Emperors, understanding
65   8”,23|             because all of the four Patriarchs of the inhabited earth attended
66   8”,23|        Constantinople, and of other Patriarchs and Bishops.” In agreement
67   8”,23|          the Popish idolatry of the Patriarchs of the East — a thing which
68   8”,23|             celebrated memory among Patriarchs, page 745, concerning those
69   8”,23|            those who have served as Patriarchs in Jerusalem, who asserts
70   8”,23|      Concerning those who served as Patriarchs in Jerusalem, page 526);
71   8”,23|             And our Forefathers and Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles
72   8”,23|             agrees.~ ~  [260] These Patriarchs were unable at that time
73   8”,23|              and consequently their Patriarchs suffered along with them (
74   8”,23|      neither the letters written by patriarchs in their correspondence