List of current patriarchs

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This is a list of current Christian Popes and Patriarchs.

Contents 1 Pope and Patriarchs in the Catholic Church 2 Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East 3 Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil 4 Pope and Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church 5 Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate 6 Patriarch of the Russian Old-Orthodox Church 7 Pope, Patriarchs and Catholicos in the Oriental Orthodox Church 8 Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church 9 See also

[edit] Pope and Patriarchs in the Catholic Church

See	Bishop	Election
Rome	Pope Benedict XVI	2005
Alexandria of the Copts	Patriarch Anthony Naguib	2006
Antioch of the Maronites	Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Peter Cardinal Sfeir	1986
Antioch, Alexandria & Jerusalem of the Greek Melkites	Patriarch Gregory III Laham	2000
Antioch of the Syrians	Patriarch Ignace Joseph III (Ephrem) Younan	2009
Jerusalem	Patriarch Fouad Twal	2008
Babylon of the Chaldeans	Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Cardinal Delly	2003
Cilicia of the Armenians	Patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmoun	1999
Venice	Patriarch Angelo Cardinal Scola	2002
West Indies	vacant since 1963
Lisbon	Patriarch Jose Cardinal da Cruz Policarpo	1998
East Indies	Patriarch Neri Antonio Sebastiao do Rosario Ferrao	2004

[edit] Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East

See	Bishop	Election
Babylon	Catholicos Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV	1976

[edit] Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil

See	Bishop	Election
Brazil	Patriarch Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez	1961

[edit] Pope and Patriarchs in the Eastern Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Constantinople (New Rome)	Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew I	1991
Alexandria	Pope & Patriarch Theodoros II	2004
Antioch	Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim)	1979
Jerusalem	Patriarch Theophilus III	2005
Moscow	Patriarch Kirill I	2009
Georgia	Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II	1977
Serbia	Patriarch Pavle I	1990
Romania	Patriarch Daniel	2007
Bulgaria	Patriarch Maxim I	1971

[edit] Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate

See	Bishop	Election
Kiev	Patriarch Filaret	1995

[edit] Patriarch of the Russian Old-Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Moscow	Patriarch Alexander	2002

[edit] Pope, Patriarchs and Catholicos in the Oriental Orthodox Church

See	Bishop	Election
Alexandria	Pope & Patriarch Shenouda III	1971
Antioch	Patriarch Ignatius Zakka Iwas I	1980
Armenia	Catholicos Karekin II Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians	1995
Ethiopia	Patriarch Catholicos Paulos I	1992
East	Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I	2005
Jerusalem	Titular Patriarch Torkom I	1990
Cilicia	Titular Catholicos Aram I	1995
Constantinople	Titular Patriarch Mesrob II	1998
Eritrea	Patriarch Antonios I	2003
India	Titular Catholicos Baselios Thomas I	2002

Note: the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Catholicos of India, head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India (Autonomous "part of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch") are not in communion with the Catholicos of the East and the Malankara Metropolitan of the Indian Orthodox Church (Autocephalous "Independent"); likewise, the Catholicos of the East, the head of the Indian Orthodox Church is not in communion with the Catholicos of India, head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India; all the others are in full communion with each other.

[edit] Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church

See	Bishop	Election
Prague	Patriarch Tomáš Butta	2006

[edit] See also

• Patriarchs
• Giga-Catholic Information on all Catholic Patriachs