"Met. Isaiah of Pittsburgh shocked the Latin counterparts at a recent ecumenical dialog by calling Latin bishops (the Pope of Rome excluded) 'altar boys'."
Was it +Maximos of Pittsburgh or +Isaias of Denver? Sounds like +Max and coming from him it would have been doubly shocking to the Roman bishops. Another Metropolitan, then a bishop, once ribbed a Catholic Cardinal friend of his here in the States (and in front of a few of us) that the Cardinal was "just a parish priest with an episcopal crown"! The claims of universal jurisdiction made by and for the popes is clearly a problem. But note how the new Pope quotes +Ignatius of Antioch!
Oh, dear, I've gotten the Greek hierarchs muddled again. I'm fairly certain it was Pittsburgh, so it must have been +Maximos. (Unless the meeting was in Pittsburgh, and it was +Isaias.)