In the meantime, Constantine summoned Patriarch George I of Constantinople and all bishops of his jurisdiction of Constantinople to a council.

He bestowed the office of Patriarch in 1454 to the illustrious Byzantine scholar-monk George Scholarius, who was well known for his opposition to union with the Latin West, who took the name of Gennadius II.

The Union was ratified at the Council of Florence in 1439 which John attended with 700 followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy.

* Patriarch George II of Alexandria ( 1021 – 1051 )

He had been betrothed to Eudoxia on a former occasion ; the circumstances surrounding the failed negotiations are unclear, but George Akropolites states that the arrangement was blocked on religious grounds by the Orthodox Patriarch Manuel Sarentos: Robert's sister Marie de Courtenay was married to Emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

His pupils included Basilios Bessarion and George Scholarius ( later to become Patriarch of Constantinople and Plethon's enemy ).

* Patriarch George II of Alexandria ( 621 – 631 )

* Patriarch George I of Constantinople ( d. 686 )

of De Boor's edition ) was made by the papal librarian Anastasius from the chronicles of Patriarch Nicephorus, George Syncellus, and Theophanes for the use of a deacon named Johannes in the second half of the ninth century, and thus was known to Western Europe.

The next day, May 4, he introduced the Nauvoo endowment ceremony to nine associates: Associate President and Patriarch to the Church, Smith's brother Hyrum ; first counselor in the First Presidency, William Law ; three of the Twelve Apostles, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards ; Nauvoo stake president, William Marks ; two bishops, Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, and a close friend, Judge James Adams of Springfield, Illinois.

These included the early church's Presiding Patriarch and Apostle William Smith ( Joseph's only surviving brother ); Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris ( who left and later rejoined the LDS Church in Utah ); Nauvoo Stake President William Marks ; second Bishop of the Church and church trustee-in-trust George Miller, Apostle John E. Page ; former Apostle William M ' Lellin ; and many others.

Anastasius, the Papal Librarian, composed a Historia tripartita in Latin, from the chronicles of George Syncellus, Theophanes Confessor, and Patriarch Nicephorus.

Notably, he summoned the 1103 council of Ruisi-Urbnisi, which condemned Armenian Miaphysitism in stronger terms than ever before, and gave unprecedented power, second only to the Patriarch, to his friend and advisor George of Chqondidi.

On her father's side, Nino was related to St. George, and on her mother's, to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Houbnal I.

The Church operates relatively freely in Hong Kong ( where the Ecumenical Patriarch has sent a metropolitan, Bishop Nikitas and the Russian Orthodox parish of St Peter and St Paul resumed its operation ) and Taiwan ( where archimandrite Jonah George Mourtos leads a mission church ).

Returning to Israel in 1965, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop George Selim Hakim of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and all Galilee, who became Patriarch Maximos V two years later.

The Byzantine monasteries furnish a long line of historians who were also monks: John Malalas, whose " hronographia " ( P. G., XCVII, 9-190 ) served as a model for Eastern chroniclers ; Georgius Syncellus, who wrote a " Selected Chronographia "; his friend and disciple Theophanes ( d. 817 ), Abbot of the " Great Field " near Cyzicus, the author of another " Chronographia " ( P. G., CVIII ); the Patriarch Nicephorus, who wrote ( 815-829 ) an historical " Breviarium " ( a Byzantine history ), and an " Abridged Chronographia " ( P. G., C, 879-991 ); George the Monk, whose Chronicle stops at A. D. 842 ( P. G.

President George W. Bush is joined by Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and clergy at the Church of Nativity Thursday, January 10, 2008, in Bethlehem.

President George W. Bush listens as Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks during a visit to the Church of Nativity Thursday, January 10, 2008, in Bethlehem.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

He also translated four books against the errors of the Greeks, by Manuel Kalekas, Patriarch of Constantinople, a Dominican friar ( Ingolstadt, 1608 ), P. G., CLII, col. 13-661, a work known only through Ambrose's translation.

* Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople ( I ) – Patriarch of Constantinople 730 – 754

* Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople ( 1025-1043 )

Eudoxia's influence was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the Emperor.

* Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

* 428 – Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.

* 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

* Cosmas II Atticus ( 12th century ), Patriarch of Constantinople

In the Ottoman Empire, the Patriarch of Constantinople, for example, had de facto administrative, fiscal, cultural and legal jurisdiction, as well as spiritual, over all the Christians of the empire.

Eastern Orthodoxy comprises those churches in communion with the Patriarchal Sees of the East, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Constantine's foundation gave prestige to the Bishop of Constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, a situation that contributed to the Great Schism that divided Western Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy from 1054 onwards.

* Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

* Cyril Lucaris ( Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople ), reigned for six terms between 1612 and 1638

* Patriarch Cyril III of Constantinople, patriarch in 1652 and 1654

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

* Patriarch Cyril VII of Constantinople, patriarch in 1855 – 1860

* Patriarch Constantine I of Constantinople

* Patriarch Constantine II of Constantinople

* Patriarch Constantine III of Constantinople

* Patriarch Constantine IV of Constantinople