II.   Sovereign

The Patriarch is the official title first created in 313 CE by Constantine to describe the high priest and head of the Imperial Christian Religion reporting to the Pappas (Pope) as ruler over the Holly Roman Empire.

The word Patriarch comes from the Ancient Greek πατριάρχης (patriarchis) meaning “the ruler, leader and father of the Christian tribe or family”. The title itself is derived from πατριά (patria) meaning “generation, ancestry, descent, tribe, family” and -αρχης (-arch) meaning “ruler, leader”.

Unlike the Roman pagan model which based the Empire from the 5th Century BCE on the Pontifex Maximus as the supreme ruler of a theocratic state with any Imperator (Emperor) or Dictator (Caesar) as secondary, Constantine organized the Holly Roman Empire so that the ruler and monarch was restored as the head and the religious classes reported to them. This model was reversed with the introduction of the Vicarius Christi (Vicar of Christ) as head of the Catholic Church and Anglo-Saxon Empire in the 8th Century CE.

From 313 CE, there were seven (7) Patriarchs being Galatia (Arles), Philadelphia (Ravenna), Alexandria, Philippi (Thessalonica), Ephesus, Jerusalem and Antioch (Constantinople).

Contrary to the revisionism under the Carolingians in the 8th Century and the Roman Cult from the 12th Century onwards, Rome was not Christian until technically the coronation of the first Vicarius Christi on Christmas Day 751. Instead, Philadelphia (Ravenna) was the spiritual centre of Christianity and home to the Patriarch in Italy.