Denomination

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Also Known As Ecumenical Patriarchate · Church of Constantinople · Great Church of Christ

Christianity

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion. Its bishop is first among equals: he convenes, he speaks for the communion, and he does not govern the other autocephalous churches. The precedence was fixed by the councils of Constantinople in 381 and Chalcedon in 451, on the ground that the city was the new Rome, and it survived the empire that produced it by more than five centuries. Its flock in Turkey is now very small, while its jurisdiction over much of the Greek diaspora, over Mount Athos and Crete, and its power to grant autocephaly, keep it at the centre of Orthodox affairs.

History & Origin

Traces its foundation to the Apostle Andrew and holds the historic title first among equals (primus inter pares) among the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Facts

Attributions

Church Family

Eastern Orthodox 1

Eastern Orthodox, first see of the communion

Belief

Defining Doctrinal Position

Trinitarian: one God in three persons 1

Its own record names it the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion, matching Eastern Orthodoxy, already carried as trinitarian.

Defining Doctrinal Position

Chalcedonian: two natures in the one person of Christ (Chalcedon, 451) 1

Its own record names it the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion, matching Eastern Orthodoxy, already carried as chalcedonian.

Defining Doctrinal Position

Rejects the Filioque: the Spirit proceeds from the Father 1

Its own record names it the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion, matching Eastern Orthodoxy, already carried as filioque-rejecting.

Doctrinal Position Detail

Primacy of honour: the patriarch convenes and speaks for the communion but does not govern the other autocephalous churches 1

Position on Sexuality

Same-sex sexual relationships are held contrary to teaching; LGBT individuals are welcomed as members but not ordained, and same-sex unions are not blessed 3

The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, under Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, stated on 24 January 2024 that the church does not accept for its members unions of same or opposite-sex couples or any other form of union apart from sacramental marriage between a man and a woman, reaffirming the binding 2016 Holy and Great Council of Crete. The Synod directed the church to respond to members already in such unions with pastoral responsibility and Christ-like love, language addressed to continuing members rather than excluding them.

Sexuality Position Detail

As the Greek parliament debated a bill to legalize civil same-sex marriage, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion, stated on 24 January 2024 that the church does not accept for its members unions of same or opposite-sex couples or any other form of union apart from sacramental marriage between a man and a woman, reaffirming the 2016 Holy and Great Council of Crete's teaching that marriage is the union of man and woman in Christ. The Synod added that the church must respond to members already in such unions with pastoral responsibility and love in Christ, addressing them as continuing members of the church rather than as excluded from it. Greece became the first majority Orthodox nation to legalize civil same-sex marriage weeks later, in February 2024, despite the church's stated opposition. 4

Origins

Place of Origin

Constantinople (modern Istanbul), seat of the Patriarch since the fourth century. 1

Founderthe subject's own account

Traditionally traced to the Apostle Andrew. 2

Practice

Liturgical Language

Greek (liturgical) 1

Its own record names it the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion and ties its jurisdiction to the Greek diaspora, matching Church of Greece, Church of Cyprus and Greek Orthodox Church, already carried as liturgical-greek.

Status

Status Today

Living tradition, practised today 1

Giving

Standing Giving Expectation

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople sets no tithe or percentage on an ordinary communicant. What makes it distinct from Eastern Orthodoxy generally on this axis is structural rather than doctrinal: its own local Istanbul flock, once roughly 135,000 people after the 1923 population exchange, has been reduced by the 1955 Istanbul pogrom, the 1964 expulsions and decades of legal pressure to only a few thousand today, by the account of the Patriarchate's own chartered lay order, the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. With too small a local base to support the institution through ordinary member giving, standing support instead runs through that lay order and its affiliated foundation, whose own stated purpose is not almsgiving but institutional duty: "we treat advocacy not as charity but as a duty owed to the Mother Church." No percentage or fixed due is named anywhere for an individual communicant; the obligation this body actually documents sits at the institutional, diaspora-patronage level rather than the ordinary-member level. 8

How the Expectation Is Enforced

Obligation to Support, No Set Rate 8

Trajectory

Membership Over Time

By 2024 that same local Istanbul community had fallen to approximately 1,500 people, following the 1955 pogrom, further legal pressure and decades of emigration. 9

Membership Over Time

The Patriarchate's native Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul numbered roughly 135,000 after the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange exempted them from resettlement. 8

Membership Figure As Of

1923-01-01 8

Membership Figure As Of

2024-03-01 9

Basis of the Membership Figure

Independent Survey 9

Basis of the Membership Figure

Scholarly or Demographic Estimate 9

History

Separation or Divergence

The Great Schism of 1054 with the Latin Church of Rome, following centuries of growing estrangement over the Filioque, papal authority and liturgical practice. 1

Date of Separation

from 1054 1

Position Profile

Key Textthe subject's own account

The Tomos of Autocephaly it issues to newly independent Orthodox churches, such as the 2019 Tomos granted to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. 2

Organisation

Governance

Self-governing churches under patriarchs, deciding in synod 1

Ordination

Restricted to men 5

Ordination

Married clergy permitted 5

Its own record names it "the first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion".

Relation to the State

No Establishment 6

Turkey recognises the Ecumenical Patriarchate only as the spiritual authority for its own dwindling Greek Orthodox minority under a foundation-based legal status with no separate constitutional recognition; the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne obliges Turkey to protect the Greek Christian community in Istanbul but is silent on the Patriarchate's own status, which Turkey continues to interpret narrowly against international objection.

Finances

Institutional Wealth or Finances

No consolidated net worth or annual budget for the Patriarchate itself is published anywhere found in this pass. The clearest documented financial figure tied to its upkeep is the roughly 73.97 million US dollars in direct and indirect support the lay Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate report having given the Patriarchate from 2002 through 2025, a measure of external donor giving rather than of wealth the Patriarchate itself holds. 7

Basis of the Wealth Figure

Journalistic or Scholarly Estimate 7

Financial Disclosure Regime

The Ecumenical Patriarchate publishes no consolidated financial statement or budget of its own. What can be documented instead comes from lay support bodies such as the Archons, who publish their own giving figures on the Patriarchate's behalf. There is no charity-style regulatory disclosure mandate: the Patriarchate is the historic seat of an autocephalous church operating within Turkey, outside any equivalent registry. 7

Wealth Figure As Of Year

2025 7

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How the Precedence Was Fixed, and Who Objected

The rank rests on two canons and on a reason that was frankly political. The third canon of the Council of Constantinople in 381 gave the bishop of Constantinople the privileges of honour after the bishop of Rome, because Constantinople is New Rome. The twenty-eighth canon of Chalcedon in 451 restated that and added jurisdiction over the dioceses of Pontus, Asia and Thrace, together with the bishops among the barbarians in those regions.

Rome objected to both, and the objection was consistent: if the standing of a see derives from its apostolic foundation rather than from the standing of its city, then no council can promote a bishopric by promoting a capital. Pope Leo refused to confirm canon 28. That disagreement about what a see rank is grounded in is one of the long fault lines between East and West, older than the events usually cited as the schism.

Alexandria and Antioch, which lost their relative position by the change, had reason to resent it as well. What settled the matter in practice was the imperial capital itself: the emperor was there, the standing synod of visiting bishops met there, and appeals travelled there. The see outlived the empire that had produced its rank by more than five centuries, and the argument about whether the rank survives its reason has never entirely stopped.

What First Among Equals Actually Confers

The powers are real and limited, and the argument in Orthodoxy is about where the limit falls. The Patriarchate convenes pan-Orthodox meetings, coordinates common positions, receives appeals from other jurisdictions in certain cases, and has historically granted autocephaly to new national churches, which is how most of the modern Orthodox churches came to be independent. It does not appoint their bishops, legislate for them, or govern them.

It also holds direct jurisdiction over a large territory outside Turkey: Mount Athos, the semi-autonomous Church of Crete, the Dodecanese, the New Lands dioceses of northern Greece administered by Athens, and much of the Greek diaspora in Europe, the Americas and Australasia. The diaspora claim rests on the Chalcedonian phrase about bishops among the barbarians, read as covering territory outside any existing patriarchate, and other Orthodox churches read it differently.

At home its position is difficult. The Christian population of Istanbul is now very small, the Halki theological school on Heybeliada has been closed since 1971, and Turkish law requires the patriarch to be a Turkish citizen, which constrains the pool of candidates. The grant of autocephaly to a church in Ukraine in 2019 led the Moscow Patriarchate to break communion with Constantinople. The atlas records the rupture and the competing accounts of it without adjudicating between them.

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

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Status Within the Tradition

Origin Period Start Year

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Category of Belief

Subject

Obligation

Connections

Associated With

AEP's Support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 2002 to 2025 Amounts to a Stunning $73.969 Million (Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "and indirect financial support to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 2002 to 2025, publishing the Archons' own giving records rather than the Patriarchate's own consolidated finances."

Source AEP's Support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 2002 to 2025 Amounts to a Stunning $73.969 Million (Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Order of St. Andrew the Apostle)

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the office at the head of this church.

Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)

Georgian Orthodox Church (Wikipedia)

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "and only formally recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1990."

Source Georgian Orthodox Church (Wikipedia)

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Sexual Misconduct Policy

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "within Eastern Orthodoxy under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, governing the investigation and resolution of sexual misconduct complaints against clergy."

Source Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Sexual Misconduct PolicyHoly Eparchial Synod, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The Patriarchate granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019.

Source Tomos of Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of UkraineEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinoplethe holders' own account

Belongs To Church Family

Eastern Orthodox Churches

Belongs to Tradition

Christianity

Branch Of

Christianity

Contained In

Eastern Orthodoxy

The first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion; its bishop is first among equals.

Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)

Governed By Polity

Patriarchal-Synodal Polity

Holds Element

Byzantine Chant

The patriarchal style sung at the Phanar is treated across the Greek-speaking churches as the reference form of the tradition.

Source A History of Byzantine Music and HymnographyEgon Wellesz

Byzantine Octoechos

The tone of the week is set by the patriarchal calendar and followed by the churches in its jurisdiction.

Mount Athos

The twenty ruling monasteries are self-governing under the canonical jurisdiction of the ecumenical patriarchate, which appoints its representative to the peninsula.

Patriarch

The ecumenical patriarch is first in honour among the Orthodox patriarchs, a primacy of order rather than of jurisdiction.

Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)

The Council of Chalcedon

Constantinople receives Chalcedon as the fourth council, and the twenty-eighth canon of that council is the ground of the see rank in the Orthodox order of precedence.

Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)

The First Assembly of the World Council of Churches

Constantinople was a founding member, and its participation gave the new body an Orthodox presence from the first day rather than as a later addition.

Source The First Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Amsterdam 1948: Official ReportW. A. Visser 't Hooft (ed.)

The Holy and Great Council of Crete

Constantinople convened the council and holds it to be the great council of the Orthodox Church, the first of its kind in more than a thousand years.

Source Official Documents of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, Crete 2016Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Held Differently

Hagia Sophia

The great church of Constantinople was the patriarchal cathedral until 1453 and remains the centre of the patriarchate's own history. The patriarchate objected publicly to the building's reconversion to a mosque in 2020.

Rejected Here

Papacy

Constantinople holds the primacy of honour within Orthodoxy on the same terms it denies to Rome: a precedence in order, not a jurisdiction over other churches.

Objects and Practices of This Tradition

Hieromonk

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Holy Orders

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.

Holy Week

Icon Painting

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Infant baptism (paedobaptism)

Infant Baptism and Christening

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Infants are baptised, chrismated and communicated in one rite, so initiation is complete before the child can speak.

Intinction

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Communion is given in both kinds together, the consecrated bread having been placed in the chalice and administered to each communicant from a spoon. The result is the same as intinction and the manner is not, and the practice here is ancient rather than adopted for convenience.

Jesus Prayer

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Lazarus Saturday

Letter of Jeremiah

Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account

Liturgy of the Hours

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Marriage Ceremony

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The marriage service is the Crowning, and the priest is the minister of the sacrament rather than a witness to a contract the couple make, which is the opposite of the Roman analysis.

Matins

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Metropolitan

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Monastic Tonsure

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Tonsure is the rite of monastic profession itself, performed in degrees, and is not a preliminary to it.

Monastic Vows

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Monastic profession is made in degrees, the rassophore, the stavrophore and the great schema, rather than as a single set of three vows.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

New Testament

Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account

None (Ninth Hour)

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Ninth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and precedes Vespers, so that the liturgical day turns on it.

Nunc Dimittis

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Observing the Sabbath

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Sunday is kept as the day of the Resurrection and the day of the Divine Liturgy, and Saturday retains a liturgical character of its own that the West largely lost.

Orthodox Christian Fasting

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Orthodox Christian Funeral

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Byzantine rite as kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Orthodox Crowning (Stefana)

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Palm Sunday

Panikhida

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Kept across the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Pascha

Patriarch

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Pentecost

Pilgrimage

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, to Jerusalem and to the shrines of local saints is a settled devotion of this church.

Prayer

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Prayer here is weighted toward the fixed cycle of the services and toward the short repeated prayer of the heart rather than toward extempore petition.

Prayer of Manasseh

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account

Prayer of the Tax Collector

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Priest (Presbyter)

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Primacy of Honor Among Orthodox Churches

Why this is disputed. The Ecumenical Patriarchate holds a primacy of honor as first among equals, first among the Orthodox sees since the councils of 381 and 451; the practical extent of that primacy, including the right to grant autocephaly unilaterally, is disputed.

Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)

Prime

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The First Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion, appended to Matins, and was never suppressed here as Prime was in the Roman rite.

Protodeacon

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Psalm 151

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account

Reader

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Rejection of the filioque

Septuagint

Source The Confession of Dositheus (Synod of Jerusalem, 1672)Synod of Jerusalemthe holders' own account

Seven Sacraments

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox perform the same rites but have never treated seven as a fixed count, calling them mysteries; chrismation follows infant baptism at once and communion is given to infants from then on, where the West defers both.

Sext

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Sixth Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and is joined to the Third in ordinary parish use.

Sub Tuum Praesidium

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Subdeacon

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

Sunday of Orthodoxy

Terce

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Third Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and carries the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit.

The Anaphora

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The anaphoras of St John Chrysostom and St Basil the Great are used according to a fixed calendar, the longer Basil on ten days of the year.

The Annunciation

Showing 51 to 100 of 118 in Objects and Practices of This Tradition, page 2 of 3.

Uses Liturgical Language

Byzantine Greek

Sources

1. The Orthodox Church

Timothy Ware (Kallistos Ware), Penguin Books, 1993Book description

Quote, Book description

Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware's book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church.

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2. Tomos of Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, 2019the holders' own account

3. Ecumenical Patriarchate: We Do Not Recognize Any Other Form of Union Apart From Marriage Between Man and Woman (Orthodox Times)

Orthodox Times, 2024the stated position on sexuality and its supporting detailView the Source

4. Greece Just Legalized Same-Sex Marriage. Will Other Orthodox Countries Join Them Any Time Soon? (Baltimore Sun / Associated Press)

Baltimore Sun (Associated Press), 2024the sexuality-position detail, corroborating the same statementView the Source

5. The First Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Amsterdam 1948: Official Report

W. A. Visser 't Hooft (ed.), SCM Press, 1949

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)

Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 2024View the Source

7. AEP's Support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 2002 to 2025 Amounts to a Stunning $73.969 Million (Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate)

Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (Order of St. Andrew the Apostle), Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2026View the Source

8. What Is the Ecumenical Patriarchate? Leadership of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (archons.org)Article body

Quote, Article body

The Ecumenical Patriarchate is the historic seat of the Archbishop of Constantinople, who carries the additional title of Ecumenical Patriarch and ranks first in honor among all Orthodox bishops.

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9. The Greek Orthodox Minority in Turkey Faces the Threat of Disappearance (Nordic Monitor, 2024)

Nordic Monitor, 2024View the Source

A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography

Egon Wellesz, Clarendon Press, 1961View the Source

Official Documents of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, Crete 2016

Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, 2016News Bulletin Number 1

Quote, News Bulletin Number 1

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church commenced on the Sunday of Pentecost, 19 June 2016, with the Pan-Orthodox concelebration of all the Primates of the participating Orthodox Churches.

View the Source

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised edition

F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005entries on Constantinople, the canons of 381 and 451, and on autocephalyView the Source

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History & Origin

A male-only ordained ministry

A Married Parish Priesthood With Celibate Bishops

Ancestral Sin as Inherited Mortality Rather Than Inherited Guilt

Autocephaly and Conciliar Governance Without a Universal Primate

Chalcedonian Christology (Two Natures in One Person)

Closed communion

Episcopal church governance

Infant baptism (paedobaptism)

Rejection of the filioque

The Holy Trinity

The resurrection of Christ

The Revised Julian Calendar for the Fixed Feasts

The Seven Ecumenical Councils as the Complete Dogmatic Deposit

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Rejected Here

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