is also called "Your All-holiness" (παναγιότης). He bears as arms the lion of St. Mark, sejant-guardant, crowned and winged, bearing in the dexter jambe a closed book surmounted by a cross urdy. The head of Orthodox Syria, Cilicia, and Mesopotamia is the "most divine and holy Lord, the Lord Patriarch of the great God-favoured city Antioch and of all the East."[1] He is his "Holiness" (ἀγιότης) only, and he bears for his arms a representation of the Apostles' Church at Antioch, between the Holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul statant affronty attired with their symbols. Over Orthodox Palestine reigns the "most divine and holy Lord, the Lord Patriarch of the Holy City Jerusalem and of the whole Land of Promise."[2] His is called his "Holiness," and bears a representation of the Church of the Anastasis.[3] The chief bishop of Cyprus, when at last there is one, will be "Archbishop of Justiniane and all Cyprus."[4] Except in Russia nearly all Orthodox bishops are metropolitans. A few have real provinces and suffragans (these suffragans are the only persons usually called bishops), the great majority have no extra-diocesan jurisdiction, but all depend immediately on their Patriarch or Holy Synod, although they all bear the quite meaningless title metropolitan instead of
- ↑ Ὁ θειότατος καὶ ἁγιώτατος κύριος, ὁ πατριάρχης τῆς μεγάλης καὶ θειοτάτης πόλεως Ἀντιωχέιας καὶ πάσης τῆς ἀνατολῆς. This title is not really so pretentious as it sounds. The "East" (ἀνατολή) means the old Roman Diocese of the East, ruled by the Comes Orientis, see p. 22. His Holiness of the God-favoured city also has a longer title including Cilicia, Iberia, Syria, Arabia, and all the East—melancholy remnant of better days.
- ↑ Ὁ θειότατος καὶ ἁγιώτατος κύριος, ὁ πατριάρχης τῆς ἁγὶας πόλεως Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ πάσης τῆς γῆς τῆς ἐπαγγελίας.
- ↑ I have only seen these arms on seals, and cannot find the tinctures. Probably they are all very late. Heraldry is a Western art. Orthodox bishops do not impale their paternal coats with the see. They have none to impale. The Empire evolved some sort of rudimentary heraldry (it bore the spread-eagle sable in a field or), and under the Venetian Government some of the Corfiote families began to use arms. Quite lately, too, there has been a beginning of heraldry in the Balkan States (they have all taken arms) as part of the general imitation of Western manners. But the whole thing is really strange to Greeks and still more so to Arabs.
- ↑ Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος τῆς Ιουστινιανῆς καὶ πάσης Κύπρου. The title of Justiniane is the curious relic of Justinian's attempt to transport the islanders to Thrace (p. 49).
