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To: Kolokotronis
primus inter pares - how do you say that in Greek. protoi en isoi?

Why would Orthodoxy think that about Rome? Real question.

7,502 posted on 01/25/2007 4:49:48 PM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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To: Mad Dawg
"primus inter pares - how do you say that in Greek. protoi en isoi?"

"Ο πρώτος μεταξύ των ίσων"

"Why would Orthodoxy think that about Rome? Real question." Because the canons of the Ecumenical Councils establish that the Bishop of Rome is the first in dignity among the Patriarchs of The Church.

7,505 posted on 01/25/2007 5:42:07 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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