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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
First of all it is NOT from a "Eulogy’ to the Bishop of Alexandria", it is from a letter to Eulogius, the Bishop of Alexandria. And while he does seem to play around with the idea of three sees really being one (very Trinitarian, that) He also writes to Eulogius:

"Who does not know that the holy Church is founded on the solidity of the Chief Apostle, whose name expressed his firmness, being called Peter from Petra (Rock)?...Though there were many Apostles, only the See of the Prince of the Apostles...received supreme authority in virtue of its very principate." (Letter to the Patriarch Eulogius of Alexandria, Ep. 7)

And also in Epistle 13.50, he speaks of:
"the Apostolic See, which is the head of all Churches"

58 posted on 04/24/2013 8:24:34 PM PDT by TradicalRC (Conservatism is primarily a Christian movement.)
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To: TradicalRC

“”Who does not know that the holy Church is founded on the solidity of the Chief Apostle, whose name expressed his firmness, being called Peter from Petra (Rock)?...Though there were many Apostles, only the See of the Prince of the Apostles...received supreme authority in virtue of its very principate.” (Letter to the Patriarch Eulogius of Alexandria, Ep. 7)”


Key words, the See of Peter in THREE places, governed with divine authority by three Bishops, who are yet “one” see, which is Antioch, Rome and Alexandria. We’re not talking about the Primacy of Peter, which they had believed at that time, but the Primacy of Rome.


59 posted on 04/24/2013 8:29:49 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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