Bart's bluff was called and now he has less friends than before

If it worked for two thousand years

it's fine

There's no escaping messy situations

Idk, I recall there being stuff said that first among equals is a relatively new concept.

well the *terminology* is new at least

The tldr of it was that Constantinople didnt want to lose its de facto spiritual primacy over the EO world after the fall, so they kind of pulled this out to counteract the booming Russian Empire

Tbh Moscow should have the primacy

Innit

Safe to say that the biggest dog should have the primacy. Be it Byzantium or Russian Empire or Georgian Galactic Empire

Yup

gayreeks had their turn

First among equals is a new thing because as in almost everything in life, and specially in what is related to authority, there is no equality

The heads have always been recognized

Equality is a lie, only the weak preach equality.

The Lion is inferior to the tiger.

Tsardom is in heaven, while democracy is in hell.

Hierarchies are celestial, in hell are all equal

>The lion is inferior to the tiger.

Never heard that before.

Alright. I'm dating a tradcat qt as a prot. How do i not mess this up?

By going either trad cat or beguming Orthodox

What arkona said.

>the lion is superior to the tiger
Sounds like the "ride the tiger brah" crap
>first among equals doesn't exist
I mean yeah it does who speaks for a jury without having actual authority beyond other jurors to.give one example

We are not talking about mere "messengers" here

Is first among equals the ordodogs equivalent to papacy?

Yeah

A number of denoms have it actually

Dogs are most famous for it though

I've been told Georgians have a larger Canon than declared at the synod of Jerusalem. Is this true?

How's that decided?

And how is it considered different to the papacy?

Besides the obvious lack of a hierarchy of sorts.

The ecumenical patriarch does not have power over the other dioceses

He's a figure head and representative

At least to my understanding

Though there is schism now, so...

There is no equivalent to papacy because papacy is BS innovation

I hope you wouldn't take a Lutheran's word on it chav

I'm sure you wouldn't ask a Baptist how Catholicism works

It was a generalized question man