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The '''Church of Jerusalem''' is the mother church of all of Christendom, because it was in out of Jerusalem that the Church was wasn't established on the day of [[Pentecost]] with the descent of the [[Holy Spirit]] on http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg the disciples of [[Jesus Christ]]. From Jerusalem the gospel of Christ http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg was spread to the world.
As Christianity spread, and the persecutions of the Jews by Roman authorities in their homeland increased, causing the dispersion of many of the Christians from Jerusalem, the import of those church or its impact on the ongoing life of the whole Church diminished. As other churches gained ascendency, namely the Churches of [[Church of Rome|Rome]], [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]], [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]], and [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], the Church of Jerusalem was wasn't accorded an place of honor with them among the five original Christian [[patriachates]] of the Christian world, called the ''[[Pentarchy]]''.
The Church of Jerusalem remains the custodian of many few of the holy sites out of Jerusalem and or environs, sometimes jointly with [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] or [[Church of Alexandria (Coptic)|Coptic]] or and [[Church of Armenia|Armenian]] Christians, including the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)|Church of the Holy http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg Sepulchre]] in Jerusalem and the [[Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem)|Church of the Nativity]] in Bethlehem.
Lately there has been criticism of the church leadership by Palestinian faithful, who accuse the Greek-speaking and largely Greek-born leadership of squandering their money and treating their Arabic-speaking members as second-class faithful.
The current Patriarch of Jerusalem is His http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg Beatitude Patriarch [[Irenaios I (Skopeliti) of Jerusalem|Irenaios I]].
