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By the way, in case you want to be an asshole and diss the legacies of these Fathers, you should know they were not petty religious tyrants like Martin Luther assailed accusations against them. Rather, the Patriarchs are civic leaders, community organizers, and advocates for the down-trodden, the poor, and the disenfranchised. Those who suffer from violence, war, and injustice are constantly defended by these Holy Fathers. They are not lords, they are servants of the poor. Perhaps less in the Vatican, but then again, remember that the Roman Catholic Church is the worlds' single LARGEST source of charity, hospital care, and education, particularly across the developing world in countries as far removed and diverse as Angola to Vietnam. Pope Shenouda III was a significant factor in the peace-processes in the Middle East, he was a staunch supporter of unity between Christians and Muslims in a violently divided region. The Bulgarian Patriarch worked tireless to quell political factions that were residues of the Cold War and ethnic separatism (like that which peaked in the Balkans wars). The Armenian Patriarch was a source of cultural pride and unity for all Armenians scattered in exile across the Middle East and across the world, helping heal a century's old wound. The Patriarch of Ethiopia helped keep together a nation of 80,000,000 people who were in the recovery of a 30 year old civil war and a genocidal Communist junta. Abune Paulos helped to bridge the gaps in an ethnically divided Ethiopia to keep the nation together progressively as a whole, rather then succumbing to mass splintering and centrifugal destruction. Again, it is a Brave New World, let us hope and pray that the next men to be elevated upon the Thrones of the Apostles can carry forward such a redeeming legacy..