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  1. The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the
  2. patriarch of Istanbul (Constantinople). The
  3. Bishop of Constantinople was recognized as
  4. having equal rights with the Bishop of Rome
  5. 451, and first termed `patriarch' in the 6th
  6. century. The office survives today but with
  7. only limited authority, mainly confined to
  8. the Greek and Turkish Orthodox churches.
  9.