Views During the Third Period (750-1517 A.D.) (8): The Supremacy of the Pope: The Great Schism of 1054

The principal sees of the East were directly founded by the apostles -- with the exception .of Constantinople -- and had even clearer title to apostolic succession and inheritance than Rome. The Greek church took the lead in theology down to the sixth or seventh century, and the Latin gratefully learned for her. All the ecumenical Councils were held on the soil of the Byzantine empire in or near Constantinople (the church councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon -- H.V.), and...