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Gainas served as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria for a short tenure in 536–537 AD. He was exiled to Sardinia, following a government order. [1]
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica.
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East. The head of the Church and the See of Alexandria is the Patriarch of Alexandria on the Holy See of Saint Mark, who also carries the title of Coptic Pope. The See of Alexandria is titular, and today the Coptic Pope presides from Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District in Cairo. The church follows the Alexandrian Rite for its liturgy, prayer and devotional patrimony. With 18–22 million members worldwide, whereof about 15 to 20 million are in Egypt, it is the country's largest Christian church.
Year 400 (CD) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Stilicho and Aurelianus. The denomination 400 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church, and the Church of the East are termed patriarchs.
The Patriarch of Alexandria is the archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation "pope".
Petros VII was the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa from 1997 to 2004. During his reign, Petros VII was credited with reviving the Greek Orthodox churches in Africa by increasing the churches' attendance of about 250,000 people.
The term Melkite, also written Melchite, refers to various Christian churches of the Byzantine Rite and their members originating in the Middle East. The term comes from the common Central Semitic root-word or cognate "M-L-K" found in Syriac-Aramaic malkoyo, Hebrew: 'מלך'Melk-i or Melech-i, and Arabic: ملكي Malak-ī, meaning "royal", monarchist and by extension, "imperial" or loyal to the Byzantine Emperor. The Melkites accepted the Council of Chalcedon. Originally they used Koine Greek and, to a lesser extent, Aramaic in worship, but later incorporated Arabic in parts of their liturgy.
Hieromartyr Proterius of Alexandria was Patriarch of Alexandria from 451 to 457. He had been appointed by the Council of Chalcedon to replace the depose Dioscorus.
Patriarch Paul of Alexandria was Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 537 and 542.
Joachim (1448?-1567) served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1486 and 1567.
Metrophanes Kritopoulos, sometimes Critopoulos, Critopoulus, Kritopulus was a Greek monk and theologian who served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1636 and 1639.
Gerasimos II Palladas served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1688 and 1710. He is honoured as a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is commemorated annually on 16 January.
Cosmas III was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1714 to 1716. He also served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria under the episcopal name Cosmas II from 1723 until his death in 1736.
Gerasimus III served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1783 and 1788.
Theophilus III served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1805 and 1825.
Callinicus served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1858 and 1861. He was a Greek cleric, born as Konstantinos Kyparissis in Skotina, Pieria, in 1800. He died in Mytilini in 1889.
Christopher II served as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1939 and 1966.
Parthenius III served as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1986 and 1996.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa is an autocephalous patriarchate that is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Its seat is in Alexandria and it has canonical responsibility for the entire African continent.
| Preceded by Theodosius I | Greek Patriarch of Alexandria 536–537 AD | Succeeded by Paul |
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