By the name Eastern patriarch, is meant the bishop to whom belongs jurisdiction over all bishops, not excepting metropolitans, clergy and people of his own territory or rite, in accordance with canon law and without prejudice to the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.(9)
Kwa jina la Patriarka wa Mashariki anamaanishwa Askofu mwenye mamlaka ya kisheria juu ya Maaskofu wote, wakiwemo miongoni mwao Mametropolita, Makleri na waamini wa eneo au riti yake, kadiri ya kanuni za sheria na ikihifadhiwa mamlaka kuu ya Baba Mtakatifu wa Roma[9].