CURRENT EASTERN CATHOLIC PATRIARCHS

Sunday, June 12, 2011

PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA OF THE COPTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE CARDINAL ANTONIOS NAGUIB




PATRIARCH OF CILICIA OF THE ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE NERSES BEDROS XIX TARMOUNI




PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH OF THE SYRIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE IGNATIUS YOUSIF III YOUNAN








PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH OF THE MARONITE CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE BECHARA PIERRE AL RAHI




PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH AND ALL THE EAST, OF ALEXANDRIA AND JERUSALEM OF THE MELKITE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE GREGORIOS III LAHAM








PATRIARCH OF BABYLON OF THE CHALDEAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
HIS BEATITUDE CARDINAL EMMANUEL III DELLY








NOTE: The difference between the Patriarch to the Major Archbishops, is that their Election only needs a Ecclesiastical Communion to the Pope notifying them unlike the Major Archbishop's Election needed to be approved by the Pope, please look here and another one here for more information. The Patriarchs themselves have full authority on their Churches, the Synod of Bishops and their Faithful, Eastern Catholic patriarchs have precedence over all other bishops, with the exceptions laid down by the Pope. Patriarchs are equal to the Cardinals, and even some are Elevated to the Cardinalate, and becoming Cardinal Bishops


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