Thats not even Byzantiboo, how can the Pope precede the faith he is the head of?
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It was meant as cheeky. And you can have discussions about the position of "Pope" (not even the real name for the position we're talking about but that aside) insofar as it pertains as the sucessors of St. Peter as the bishop of Rome and the significance Catholics put on it. For the sake of the game, I could well see a "Roman Catholic Pope" and a "Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Rome" existing side by side if the Orthodox are able to capture Rome
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Pope's, as in the Bishop of Rome, have existed for as long as Christianity has existed. While Pope, more accurately Papa, was at first not exclusive to the Bishop of Rome, it came to be so over the centuries in the Western Church. For example, Pope Leo I (5th century), was titled as "Papa" in official correspondence, with Pope Gregory I solidifying that even more. 11th century Gregorian reforms only made it official, that the title of Pope was reserved for the Bishop of Rome alone, but it's false to make the claim that there were no "Popes" before.
It's also false to make the claim that the Church was unified before the 11th century. Jurisdictional disputes, as well as theological ones, were constant. Popes had asserted primacy for as long as records exist, with some Eastern emperors even recognizing that, like Justin I, Justinian I and Phocas ("Bishop of Rome is the head of all the churches"). It's also why Leo I did not like the Council of Chalcedon trying to make the Patriarch of Constantinople into a equal of the Bishop of Rome. Of course, later as Byzantium lost power in the West, it became convenient for the emperors to elevate the Patriarch of Constantinople.
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