Who wants to be Patriarch?<\/p><\/div>I post this for the benefit of Greek Orthodox bishops in America who have aspirations to Turkish citizenship. Make sure you don’t displease the Pasha. He’ll round file your job application.<\/p>\n

From the Dec. 10 issue of Today’s Zaman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s Armenian Orthodox community seeks co-patriarch<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Armenian Patriarchate in \u0130stanbul is seeking permission to designate a \u201cco-patriarch\u201d in light of the illness of Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan, whom they recognize as their community\u2019s spiritual leader until the end of his life.<\/p>\n

An announcement on the patriarchate\u2019s Web site announced that they have submitted an application to the relevant authorities toward the selection of a co-patriarch. The statement recalled that until the emergence of health problems, Patriarch Mesrob II had served in his position for 11 years and that on Dec. 24, 2008, the patriarchate decided that he would be the community\u2019s spiritual leader until his death. \u201cAs is known, Turkey\u2019s Armenian Patriarch Mesrob II is unfortunately ill. As we\u2019ve written before, doctors are not positive about his medical condition. \u2026 On March 2, 2009, the decision was made that the necessity existed for a co-patriarch to be chosen, as our tradition provides for,\u201d the statement added. While the exact nature of the patriarch\u2019s illness has not been disclosed to the public, known issues include memory difficulty and other problems that emerged after the 53-year-old underwent surgery to remove a goiter.<\/p>\n

The spiritual council of the Orthodox community decided during a Nov. 13 meeting to announce its decision to submit the necessary application to make it possible to select a co-patriarch, the statement said. The application has been accepted by \u0130stanbul Governor Muammer G\u00fcler and will be forwarded as is required to the Ministry of the Interior<\/strong>, the patriarchate added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I post this for the benefit of Greek Orthodox bishops in America who have aspirations to Turkish citizenship. Make sure you don’t displease the Pasha. He’ll round file your job application. From the Dec. 10 issue of Today’s Zaman: Turkey\u2019s Armenian Orthodox community seeks co-patriarch The Armenian Patriarchate in \u0130stanbul is seeking permission to designate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[52,160,296,1131,50,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}