The
Ecumenical Patriarch (,
I Aftoú Theiotáti Panagiótis, o Archiepískopos Konstantinoupóleos, Néas Rómis kai Oikoumenikós Patriárchis, "His Most Divine All-Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch") is the Archbishop of
Constantinople–New Rome and ranks as
primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several
autocephalous churches that make up the
Eastern Orthodox Church, often being regarded as the spiritual leader of the 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.