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St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome | Stephen K. Ray | From Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church There is little in the history of the Church that has been more heatedly contested than the primacy of Peter and the See of Rome. History is replete with examples of authority spurned, and the history of the Church is no different. As we proceed with this overview of history, we will allow the Scriptures, the voice of the apostles, and the testimony of the early centuries of the Christian...

This an excerpt is from Against False Union by Dr. Alexander Kalomiros (Seattle, WA: St. Nectarios Press, 1990 [1967]), pp. 53-55 as posted on www.orthodoxinfo.com /small> XXVIII. ECCLESIOLOGY The commotion about union of the churches makes evident the ignorance existing as much among the circles of the simple faithful as among the theologians as to what the Church is. They understand the catholicity of the Church as a legal cohesion, as an interdependence regulated by some code. For them the Church is an organization with laws and regulations like the organizations of nations. Bishops, like civil servants, are distinguished as...

29 June, 2004 VATICAN Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in the spirit of ecumenism In the afternoon the Pope will confer the pallium on 44 metropolitan bishops (6 from Asia) Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The presence in Rome of Bartholomew I, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, has given the Pope the opportunity to affirm that the “petrine primacy” — a very controversial issue in ecumenical dialogue — simply means presiding over the “universal mission of the Church which is to bring to the world the Gospel of Christ, Redeemer of man and...