Do four out of the five concerning the pentarchy belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church?

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Do four out of the five pentarchy belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church?
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May I pre-empt your conclusion? Jesus Christ did not establish a “pentarchy”. He established a Church upon St. Peter. Where St. Peter went, that is the where the Church which Jesus established went. That Church now has it’s seat in Rome.

Yes, the Eastern Orthodox Church fell away from the Church of Jesus Christ. No matter how many pentarchy’s it claims to hold.
 
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No, the eastern sees of Christ’s Church do not “belong to” the Eastern Orthodox Church, or to the Roman Catholic Church. Christ left us one Church. The divisions in it today are caused by human weakness. The early Church was one Communion, with the Bishop of Rome, the Successor of St. Peter, with recognized primacy. The Great Schism was a huge tragedy for Christianity. We should pray daily for re-communion.

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To answer your question. Yes, four of the five Great Patriarchal Sees do belong to the Eastern Orthodox Communion. Though, two of these Sees (Alexandria and Antioch) are divided between Chalcedonian and Non-Chalcedonian Patriarchates. Sadly, all four (six if we include the Non-Chalcedonian Patriarchs) of these Ancients Sees are out of communion with the See of Peter.

There are also Catholic Patriarchs in Antioch (actually three of them, Maronite, Melkite, and Syrian), Alexandria (Coptic and Melkite), and Jerusalem (Melkite). The Melkite Patriarch holds the title of Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem.
 
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Do four out of the five pentarchy belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church?
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Rome favored the idea of the triple Petrine See of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch. The Catholic Church maintains that in addition to the Patriarch of the Latin Church (Rome) there are the following Catholic Patriarchs of Ancient Patriarchates:
  • Coptic (Alexandria)
  • Greek-Melkite (Antioch)
  • Maronite (Antioch)
  • Syrian (Antioch)
  • Roman (Jerusalem)
And two Catholicos:
  • Armenian (Cilicia)
  • Chaldean (Babylon)
Emperor Justinian I considered the pentarchy as the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem,
 
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