Minipope

What is Minipope?


1.

The leader of an autonomous Eastern Catholic church, usually a patriarch such as the Maronite patriarch of Antioch. Some churches are led by a major archbishop. Minipopes have a large degree of freedom to safeguard the traditions and theological emphases of their particular church, but they still recognize the authority of the bishop of Rome, who is the patriarch of the Latin church. Many minipopes, like the churches they head, have a counterpart in the Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox communions. A notable exception is the Maronite Patriarch, who, along with the whole Maronite church, never split with Rome. Some churches, like the Russian Catholic church, do not have a minipope, or even a hierarchy.

The Maronite minipope wrote an apostolic letter to the church.

See pope, autonomous, church


50

Random Words:

1. people who dogmatically and absurdly persist in disagreeing with one's own dogmatic and absurd beliefs. see the work of John Rawls..
1. Windows Operated Pentium Abiotic Robot Wopar, was first conceived as a prank, through a series of college parties at M.I.T. In the ..
1. yokel version of guitar "Why I fand ma gee-tar in the at-tick th'other day and there was all these ro-dants insad it, but it ..