[FormerLib]

...and the east needs to recognize that an Ecumenical Council needs the Pope.

Needs to recognize? Have you never wondered why the East has never declared an Ecumenical Council since the schism?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Needs to recognize? Have you never wondered why the East has never declared an Ecumenical Council since the schism?

Thank you for making that point. Some modern Easterners like to say that the Palamite Council in 1351 is Ecumenical without the Pope (879 is another matter).