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În prealabil postat de Mihnea Dragomir

În disputele, mai mici sau mai mari, care au tulburat Bisericile locale. Spre exemplu, după o perioadă de cercetare şi oscilaţie, papa sprijină în mod hotărâtor atitudinea ortodoxă a Sf Atanasie cel Mare, răsturnând decizii ale unor sinoade tâlhăreşti în care ortodoxia nu mai era sprijinită practic de nimeni. Iată un fragment din scrisoarea papei Iuliu I (nu am varianta în română):
"[The] judgment [concerning Athanasius] ought to have been made, not as it was, but according to the ecclesiastical canon. It behooved all of you to write us so that the justice of it might be seen as emanating from all. ... Are you ignorant that the custom has been to write first to us and then for a just decision to be passed from this place [Rome]? If, then, any such suspicion rested upon the bishop there [Athanasius of Alexandria], notice of it ought to have been written to the church here. But now, after having done as they pleased, they want to obtain our concurrence, although we never condemned him. Not thus are the constitutions of Paul, not thus the traditions of the Fathers. This is another form of procedure, and a novel practice. ... What I write about this is for the common good. For what we have heard from the blessed apostle Peter, these things I signify to you" (Letter on Behalf of Athanasius [A.D. 341], in Athanasius, Apology Against the Arians 20–35).

Personal din cate am citit eu am inteles ca Episcopia Romei era primara si ca Episcopul Romei era "primul intre egali".In ce sens?Am auzit ca primatul papal ar fi fost mai mult unul de onoare.