It was the Patriarch, who established the Catholicate in the fifth century. In 1912, when the Orthodox faction consecrated a Catholicos, the Patriarch was brought here, the Jacobite spokesman added.

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...