Concept

Patriarch

Overview

highest-ranking bishop in Christianity

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1. Augustine (354-430) throughout the Middle Ages, it is here sufficient to quote a few words of Gustav Krüger: "The theological position and influence of Augustine may be said to be unrivalled. No single name has ever exercised such power over the Christian Church, and no one mind ever made so deep an impression on Christian thought. In him scholastics and mystics, popes and opponents of the papal supremacy, have seen…

   Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum

   Close in meaning to Patriarch; the term itself is not named.

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2. For when a bishop of so important a Church, himself a man of so great merit and virtue, endowed with such excellence of heart and power of eloquence, entertained an opinion about baptism different from that which was to be confirmed by a more diligent searching into the truth; though many of his colleagues held what was not yet made manifest by authority, but was sanctioned by the past custom of the Church, and…

   of Hippo Augustine, Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy

   Close in meaning to Patriarch; the term itself is not named.

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3. The patriarch of Russia has ever since been consecrated by the Russian bishops, and not by the patriarch of Constantinople. He ranked in the Greek church next to the patriarch of Jerusalem, but he was in fact the only free and powerful patriarch; and, consequently, the only real one. Those of Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, are mercenary chiefs of a church, enslaved by the Turks; and even the…

   Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia

   Names Patriarch several times.

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Philosophers who discussed Patriarch

• Pietro Pomponazzi

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