Autocephaly recognized by some autocephalous Churches de jure: Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches: Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church:
The term "Greek" is a religious identifier and not an ethnic one; while many of these patriarchs were ethnic Greeks, some were Hellenized Egyptians, and others were Melkite Arabs.
Over the next several decades, these two parties competed for the See of Alexandria and frequently still recognized the same Patriarch.
After 727, the Byzantine emperor Leo III once more attempted to install a Melkite patriarch in Alexandria.
With the consent of the Muslim authorities the bishopric was, from that moment onwards, again headed by a patriarch.