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You have accessed the website of the Permanent Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is the spiritual centre
of the world-wide Orthodox Church and the Patriarch of Constantinople is
considered the highest authority within the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Since the sixth century, he has borne the title of Archbishop of
Constantinople and New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch. As the «primus
inter pares» (first among equals) bishop of the Orthodox Church, the
Ecumenical Patriarch undertakes various Pan-Orthodox initiatives, and
coordinates relations within the Orthodox Communion, as well as
relations between all the Orthodox and other Christian Churches and
World Religions.
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