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PAN-SLAVIC ROMAN UNITY Gallo-Russo-Byzantine
Catholicate, the Anglican Patriarchate of Rome, Orthodox and Old Catholic
The Slavic world spans both Eastern rite and Latin rite Christianity, eastern culture and latin, Russian lands and Roman territories. The Pontifical Imperial State (Imperial Roman Church) today serves as a unifying spiritual and cultural force seeking to build unity accross Slavic cultures and faiths, as well as between Slavic cultures and the Roman culture to which they are also heirs. Due to its spiritual, temporal, and cultural heritage, the Pontifical Imperial State is uniquely positioned for this role. The Imperial Roman Church is among those few churches in the world that are privileged to branch in Apostolic succession from the Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Old Catholic, Melkite Catholic, Syrian Antiochian Orthodox, Syrian Malankara, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Uniate, Melkite (Greek) Catholic, and Chaldean (Babylonian/Iraqi) Catholic Churches. The most recent Patriarchs of ancient geographical Churches from which we descend are both from the 20th century: Sergei, Patriarch of Moscow (Russian Orthodox) and Yousef VI, Patriarch of Babylon (Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq). Part of our Roman succession is held in common with 95% the modern Vatican Church (Roman Communion) today, but the Imperial Roman Church also has much older lines as well, including the famous lines of Medici, Barberini, and Borghese. As a Church of united Apostolic heritage spanning East and West, it evokes memories of the Church before the Great Schism one thousand years ago and points to a Christian unity that often seems today like an elusive goal. See also the Yugoslavian legacy of the Church.
Read more about the History of the Pontifical Imperial State and Imperial Roman Church here.
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The
Stato Pontificio Romano constitutes an ecclesiastical sovereignty by
right of Rome as heir to the Roman Empire with an independent
government in special consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (as the Anglican Rite Roman Catholic
Church). Additionally, the church is of the Pontifical
Orthodox Old Catholic faith and descends from the See of Utrecht,
which was granted autonomy in 1145 by Pope Eugene III and confirmed in
1520 by Pope St. Leo X in the Bull Debitum Pastoralis. As the sole
successor of Pope St. Leo X and temporal successor of St. Peter the
Apostle, the Catholicate and Patriarchate are fully Catholic and holds
the same canonical authority as the Roman Communion (Vatican). The
Catholicate and Patriarchate are the ecclesiastical successor to
temporal Rome, the temporal patrimony of the Roman Empire claimed
historically by right of the papacy. The succession passed to the
Catholicate after Benedict XVI by right of Rome and Florence, with the
Papa-Catholicos of Rome-Ruthenia with papal authority as temporal
successor of St. Peter, and the Pope-Bishop of Rome as spiritual
successor of St. Peter and de facto sovereign of the Vatican
City-State. Although administratively independent, the Apostolic See
embraces as brethren other Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican bodies,
such as the current Roman Communion (commonly referred to as the Roman
Catholic Church), the Anglican Ordinariate, Eastern Orthodox Churches,
and the Anglican Communion. The Imperial Roman Church is defined as the
Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate, the Anglican Patriarchate of Rome,
and the churches of all Bishops recognised by the Catholicate. The
governments of the modern republics of Italy, German, France,
Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the United States, and of
the modern kingdoms of Great Britain and Spain, as well as the European
Union and all other civil states, are not affiliated with the Stato
Pontificio government in exile.
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