[OLD REGGIE]

You keep ignoring the assent given by Pope John VIII to the council we Orthodox call the Eighth Ecumenical Council: it anathematized the council you Latins call the Eighth Ecumenical Council.

It isn't surprising. Dave ignores anything which he wishes to ignore.

You may have noticed, earlier he made a positive statement that the First Council of Nicea was approved by the Pope. He has ignored that one of the Canons of this council had a direct bearing of the "ecumenical" understanding of the primacy of Rome.

It appears he might have read what the Catholic Encyclopedia has to say on the matter:

Canon 6: Concerning patriarchs and their jurisdiction.

And, he ignores the canon:

Canon 6:

The ancient customs of Egypt, Libya and Pentapolis shall be maintained, according to which the bishop of Alexandria has authority over all these places since a similar custom exists with reference to the bishop of Rome. Similarly in Antioch and the other provinces the prerogatives of the churches are to be preserved. In general the following principle is evident: if anyone is made bishop without the consent of the metropolitan, this great synod determines that such a one shall not be a bishop. If however two or three by reason of personal rivalry dissent from the common vote of all, provided it is reasonable and in accordance with the church's canon, the vote of the majority shall prevail.

[The_Reader_David]

Of course, but the Latins have ignored the sixth Nicean canon for centuries. It does, like the twenty-eighth canon of Chalcedon, point out that the Church never actually accepted their later idea of the Pope of Rome as the "Head of the Church", "Vicar of Christ", etc.