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Antioch

Patriarch of Antioch (Greek line) · c. 34–37 by tradition (Peter — where the disciples were first called Christians)

The church of Acts 11, where 'the disciples were first called Christians', with Peter as its first bishop by tradition and Ignatius its great martyr-bishop. Third see of the pentarchy, teacher of the East through its exegetical school; after the divisions of 518 this line follows the Greek (Chalcedonian) numbering.

Continues today as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, seated in Damascus.

The bishops

70 holders in the record.

Of the 69 links in this chain, 15 rest on a recorded succession; 22 are inferred from the numbering — the register numbers the two holders consecutively and no source says one followed the other; 32 are named by no register at all: nothing joins those two rows. Each holder below says which it is.

Glosses

  • The five sees Justinian's law speaks of five patriarchates — Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem — in that order, and the arrangement is called the pentarchy. It was never quite the fact it was legislated as…

Events

Texts

Feasts

List of patriarchs of Antioch · List of Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Antioch · the communion today