title: Primary and Conciliarity: Studies in the Primacy of the See of Constantinople & the Synodal Structure of the Orthodox Church
author: Lewis J. Patsavos
description: Two studies on the primacy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the organizational structure of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches by the Professor of Canon Law.
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  Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  UC San Diego
  Peer Reviewed
  Title:
  Echoes of Constantinople : oral and written tradition of the psaltes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
  of Constantinople
  Author:
  Khalil, Alexander Konrad
  Acceptance Date:
  2009
  Series:
  UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  Degree:
  Ph. D., UC San Diego
  Permalink:
  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r2794cz
  Local Identifier:
  b6636498
  Abstract:
  This dissertation explores the significance of a concept known as yphos among the last remaining
  psaltes (chanters) of the millennium-old tradition at the Patriarchal church of Constantinople,
  in Istanbul, Turkey. Collaborating with Stilianos Floikos, the youngest--and possibly the last--of
  these psaltes, I take as my point of departure his beliefs and practices regarding yphos, which
  he conceives as manifest through