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348 their own Prophet are not enough to control their passions and to make them live in peace, he would have to refer the matter to the invincible Ottoman Police. Eventually the Minister of Religions, our inimitable friend Abdurrahman, last November, sent a note to Joachim, telling him his duty and the Canons of the Orthodox Church, and exhorting him to be a good Patriarch; but so far the Porte is for him and he still reigns. However, the opposition is by no means dead, and we may hear any day that he has gone the weary way to Chalki once more, and that a new bishop rules over the Great Church.

Besides the synod and mixed council the Œcumenical Patriarch has a court or curia of officers, whose titles and functions in most cases come down from the days of the old Empire. They are: the Great Economist, a deacon who administers the finances, presents candidates for ordination, and governs the patriarchate when the see is vacant; the Great Sakellarios, who looks after the monasteries; the Great Sacristan ; the Chancellor ; the Sakellion , who is responsible for convents; the Protonotary Byzantine Greek has a number of Latin and hybrid words), who is the Patriarch's secretary; the Warden of the Robes ); the Rephendarios , who is sent on embassies; the Great Logothete, who keeps the seal; the Hypomnematographos, who writes down protocols of synods and counts votes; the Protekdikos, who is judge of smaller cases; the Hieromnemon, who keeps the liturgical books; the Hypogonaton, who helps vest the Patriarch and holds the paten at Holy Communion; the Hypomimneskon, who receives petitions; and the Didaskalos, who explains the