The Limits of the Five Patriarchates is a Greek text describing the five patriarchates of Christianity in the Middle Ages. It is found appended to some manuscripts of the New Testament. The text's sequence and validity of patriarchates is different from the traditional Pentarchy established by ecumenical councils, with Jerusalem moved to first. The order of the other four is unchanged: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch. The document probably was written in Calabria, in the 9th or 10th century. It is found in some manuscripts of the New Testament: 69, 211, and 543 (in 543 one page of it is lost). In minuscule 543 this document is titled "Γνώσις καὶ ἐπίγνωσις τῶν πατριαρχῶν θρόνων" (Knowledge and Cognition of the Patriarchate Sees).

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