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Pentarchy

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==History==
When After the [[Ascension]], the [[Apostles]] left dispersed to preach [[JudeaChristianity]] to preach to the world, they . They each founded different [[Patriarchate]]s. The most prominent disciples of [[Jesus]] founded the Patriarchates that made up the Pentarchy.
*[[Patriarchate of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] - [[James]]"Successor to Jesus"*[[Patriarchate of Rome|Rome]] - [[Peter]]"First among disciples"*[[Patriarchate of Alexandria|Alexandria]] - [[Mark]]"Writer of the Gospel"*[[Patriarchate of Constantinople|Constantinople]] - [[Andrew]]"the First Called"*[[Patriarchate of Antioch|Antioch]] - [[Peter]] After the 7th century Arab conquests, and the Byzantine loss of the Rome-Ravenna corridor, only [[Constantinople]] remained securely within a state calling itself the "Roman Empire" — the [[Pope]] at [[Rome]] was independent (see [[Gregory the Great]]), [[Jerusalem]] and [[Alexandria]] were under Muslim rule, and [[Antioch]] was on the front lines of hundreds of years of recurring border warfare between the [[Byzantine Empire]] and the [[Arab Caliphate]]. These historical-political changes, combined with the northward shift of the center of gravity of [[Christendom]] during the Middle Ages, and the fact that the majority of Christians in Muslim-ruled Egypt and Syria were Non-[[Chalcedonians]] who refused to recognize the authority of either [[Rome or Constantinople]], meant that the original ideal of five great co-operating centers of administration of the whole [[Christian church]] grew ever more remote from practical reality.
[[Category:Church History]]
[[Category:Jurisdictions]]

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