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To: Destro
I've always seen the last title Englished as "Judge of the Universe", which is certainly a more correct rendering for modern usage of the meaning of the title in its origins: the Patriarch of Alexandria 'judged the universe' in the matter of the calendar, details of which were refered to the Church of Alexandria after the First Ecumenical Council because Alexandria basically had all the scientists.

Just wanted to point this out in advance of protestants coming around and fulminating that the title is blasphemous.

Of course, the Popes of Alexandria, like the Popes of Rome and the Patriarchs of Antioch, all can rightly claim petrine foundations for their sees: Antioch and Rome because St. Peter occupied the see, Alexandria because he consecrated his secretary, the Evangelist Mark, to be its first bishop.

7 posted on 09/29/2004 7:00:55 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: The_Reader_David

I will fulminate only to the extent of offering lightning-quick thanks for this interesting information.


8 posted on 09/29/2004 7:16:37 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: The_Reader_David
Couldn't they have called him Judge of the Calender?
9 posted on 09/29/2004 9:49:39 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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