Patriarch Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Minor Latin patriarchates=== Minor patriarchs do not have jurisdiction over other metropolitan bishops. The title is granted purely as an honour for various historical reasons. They take precedence after the heads of autonomous churches in full communion, whether pope, patriarch, or major archbishop. *The [[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem]], established 1099. *The [[Patriarch of the East Indies]], a titular patriarchal see, united to [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman|Goa and Daman]], established 1886. *The [[Patriarch of Lisbon]], established 1716. *The [[Patriarch of Venice]], established 1451. ====Historical Latin patriarchates==== * The [[Patriarchate of Aquileia|Patriarch of Aquileia]] – with rival line of succession moved to Grado – dissolved in 1752. * The [[Patriarch of Grado]] – in 1451 merged with the Bishopric of Castello and Venice to form the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Venice (later a residential Patriarchate itself). * The [[Patriarch of the West Indies]] – a titular patriarchal see, vacant since 1963. * The [[Latin Patriarch of Antioch]] – title abolished in 1964. * The titular [[Latin Patriarch of Alexandria]] – title abolished in 1964. * The [[Latin Patriarch of Constantinople]] – title abolished in 1964. * The [[Latin Patriarchate of Ethiopia]] – 1555 to 1663, never effective, only held by Iberian [[Jesuits]] ==== Patriarch as title ''ad personam'' ==== The pope can confer the rank of patriarch without any see, upon an individual archbishop, as happened on 24 February 1676 to [[Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal)|Alessandro Crescenzi]], of the [[Somascans]], former [[Latin Titular Patriarch of Alexandria]] (19 January 1671 – retired 27 May 1675), who nevertheless resigned the title on 9 January 1682. ===="Patriarch of the West"==== {{main|Patriarch of the West}} In theological and other scholarly literature of the [[Early Modern]] period, the title "[[Patriarch of the West]]" ([[Latin language|Latin]]: ''Patriarcha Occidentis''; [[Greek language|Greek]]: Πατριάρχης τῆς Δύσεως) was mainly used as designation for the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome over the [[Latin Church]] in the West. From 1863 to 2005, the title "Patriarch of the West" was appended to the list of papal titles in the ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'', which in 1885 became a semi-official publication of the Holy See. This was done without historical precedent or theological justification: There was no ecclesiastical office as such, except occasionally as a truism: the patriarch of Rome, for the [[Latin Church]], was the only patriarch, and the only apostolic see, in the "west". The title was not included in the 2006 ''Annuario''. On 22 March 2006, the [[Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity]] offered an explanation for the decision to remove the title. It stated that the title "Patriarch of the West" had become "obsolete and practically unusable" when the term ''the West'' comprises Australia, New Zealand and North America in addition to Western Europe, and that it was "pointless to insist on maintaining it" given that, since the [[Second Vatican Council]], the [[Latin Church]], for which "the West" is an equivalent, has been organized as a number of [[episcopal conference]]s and their international groupings.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/communique-on-title-patriarch-of-west | work=Zenit | title=Communiqué on title 'Patriarch of the West' | date= 22 March 2006| access-date = 20 December 2017}}</ref> Though the formulation "Patriarch of the West" is no longer used, the pope in that role issues the ''Code of Canon Law'' for the Latin Church. During the [[Synod of Bishops (Catholic)|Synod of Bishops]] on the Middle East in 2009, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] appeared, as patriarch of the Latin Church, with the other patriarchs, but without the [[Latin patriarch of Jerusalem]], though he was present at the same synod.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting of the Eastern Catholic Patriarchs and Major Archbishops with Pope Benedict XVI|url=http://orientale-lumen.blogspot.it/2009/09/meeting-of-eastern-catholic-patriarchs.html|website=Society of St. John Chrysostom| access-date=30 September 2017|date=20 September 2009}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page