Preoccupation with Papal Supremacy
An ofttimes, even today, preoccupation among Catholics --and some Orthodox with Catholics in their ear-- is the Concept of Papal Supremacy. Here His Brace Bishop Enoch addresses this fallacy from citing canons of the 11th Century. --Fr. Editor. "Before the eleventh-century reform [i.e. Hildebrandianism], 'Petrinity' conferred on the pope an honorary rather than an actual primacy over the Church. Rome was already considered the 'prima sedes' [first see], but this did not grant any superiority over to its bishop, who did not preside over other bishops. As pointed out by Colin Morris, a clear explanation of what this meant is found in Burchard of Worm's 'Decretum' (1015-1020), where the canonists stated that even though the order of bishops started with Peter, and Rome should be considered the first see, the bishop of Rome should not be called 'princeps sacerdotum, aut summus sacerdos, aut aliquid hujusmodi, sed tantum primae sedis episcopus / head o...