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'''Gerontism''' , also '''Gerontismos''' or '''System of the Elders''' ({{el icon}} Γεροντισμός), was a system of Synodal reform within the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] during the [[Ottoman empire]], whereby senior [[Bishop|Hierarchs]] ("Elders") were given responsibility for the administration of the Patriarchate, in cooperation with the Patriarch. The system was fomally established in the middle of the eighteenth century from 1767, and remained in force for about a century until 1860, when it was abolished.