Biserica Ortodoxă a Constantinopolului

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Patriarhia Ecumenică de Constantinopol
Întemeietor(i)	The Apostles
Autocefalie/Autonomie declarată	Traditional
Autocefalie/Autonomie recunoscută	692 by Quinisext Council
Primatul actual	Patr. Theophilus
Sediu	Constantinopol / Istambul, Turcia
Teritoriu principal	Turcia
Posesiuni în afară	toate parohiile greceşti din afara Greciei, Ciprului, Ierusalimului şi Alexandriei
Limbă liturgică	Greek, English, Arabic
Tradiție muzicală	Byzantine Chant
Calendar	Julian
Populație estimată	130,000
Site oficial	Ecumenical Patriarcate

The Church of Jerusalem is the mother church of all of Christendom, because it was in Jerusalem that the Church was established on the day of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus Christ. From Jerusalem the gospel of Christ was spread to the world.

As Christianity spread, and the persecutions of the Jews by Roman authorities in their homeland increased, causing the dispersion of many of the Christians from Jerusalem, the import of this church and its impact on the ongoing life of the whole Church diminished. As other churches gained ascendency, namely the Churches of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch, the Church of Jerusalem was accorded a place of honor with them among the five original Christian patriarchates of the Christian world, called the Pentarchy.

The Church of Jerusalem remains the custodian of many of the holy sites in Jerusalem and environs, sometimes jointly with Roman Catholic or Coptic or Armenian Christians, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Lately there has been criticism of the church leadership by Palestinian faithful, who accuse the Greek-speaking and largely Greek-born leadership of squandering their money and treating their Arabic-speaking members as second-class faithful.

Following the recent deposition of Patriarch Irenaios I amidst scandals regarding the transfer of land to Jewish control, the Holy Synod of the church named as their temporary primate His Eminence Metropolitan Cornelius (Rodousakis) of Petra. On August 22, 2005, the Holy Synod unanimously elected the former Archbishop of Tabor, Theophilus, as the 141st Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Related articles

• New Church of St. Mary, the Theotokos (Jerusalem)

External links

• Official Website of the Church of Jerusalem (Main page)
• Official Website of the Church of Jerusalem (English)
• Eastern Christian Churches: The Patriarchate of Jerusalem by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
• Rum Orthodox Ivri: The Website of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Community within Israeli Society, served by Fr. Alexander Winogradsky, a priest of Jewish ethnicity serving mainly in Hebrew
• Epitropia of the Holy Sepulchre in America
• The Greek Orthodox Community of Jerusalem / Greek Colony, Jerusalem, Israel