Primacy of the Roman Pontiff
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 90 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-4247-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The primacy of the Bishop of Rome is an ecclesiastical doctrine held by some branches of Christianity, most notably the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. The doctrine concerns the respect and authority that is due to the Bishop of Rome from bishops and their sees. Some Orthodox understand the primacy of the Bishop of Rome to be merely one of greater honour, treating him as "primus inter pares" ("first among equals"), without effective power over other churches. Others see primacy as indeed power, the expression, manifestation and realization in one bishop of the power of all the bishops, an expression and manifestation of the unity not just of the churches but of the Church. The Catholic Church attributes to the Pope a primacy that involves "full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered", a power that it attributes also to the the entire body...
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