Posted on 11/22/2009 1:24:11 PM PST by NYer
No it isn’t. If it had then you wouldn’t have been repeatedly corrected by more than one person.
The Church of Georgia became autocephallous in 446 as an archbishopric, like the Church of Cyprus and the Church of Sinai. Bulgaria’s patriarchate was proclaimed in 919.
The Church of Greece, though autocephallous, is an archbishopric, not a Patriarchate.
There is no doubt that the main event of the Great Schism was between Rome and Constantinople, but aside from the Maronites, all of the Eastern Churches, so far as I know, broke with Rome. Thereafter smaller groups, break offs from the larger churches, left Orthodoxy and went into communion with Rome. In other instances, Byzantine/Orthodox type churches were created and went into communion with Rome. All of that makes for interesting and intricate history, but right now, if we are to be faithful to what the late Pope and the EP have asked of us, we should at least agree on who is “Catholic”. I thought we had.
As opposed to the original poster who was corrected by more than one person as well, and since I cited examples that verified my claim and Your prooof agreed with what I said, well you know......
“...but am commenting on the actualities of history i.e. it was really R v/s/ C not R v/s all the other patriarchates.”
C, which patriarchate, indeed which particular church other than the Maronites, stuck with Rome? None, right? I will grant you that the main event was between Rome and Constantinople, but the filioque issue, for example, really came to a head in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem where French monks accused the local monks of heresy for changing the Creed by “removing the filioque”. Of course, a couple of centuries later Leo IX definitively declared that the “removal” of the filioque in the Divine Liturgy in Constantinople was heresy. I suspect that that put the fat in thie fire more than the earlier incidents at Jerusalem although they lead to at least two local Western Councils who declared the “removal” by the Orthodox as heresy.
Politically, the fight was between Constantinople and Rome, but theologically it was broader than that.
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