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''Main Article: [[Patriarch]]''
The title patriarch is reserved for the [[primate]] of certain of the [[autocephalous]] Orthodox churches. The first [[hierarch]] of the other autocephalous churches are styled metropolitan or archbishop or archbishop.
The title patriarch was first applied to the original three major [[see]]s of [[Church of Rome|Rome]], [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]], and [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], and shortly after extended to include [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] and [[Church of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] (cf. [[Pentarchy]]).
