ONE of the books I bought this year was 'The Orthodox Study Bible,' prepared by the Academic Community of St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology and published by Thomas Nelson.
Among its notes, there is a reference to the separation of the Orthodox and the Catholic communities — blamed, quite expectedly, on the Bishop of Rome's claims to supremacy over the patriarchs who presided over sees or jurisdictions that claimed to be as 'original' as Rome and could trace their authority to one or the other apostle.There are, to be sure, doctrinal issues.
But even as a seminary student of Church history, expertly taught by a professor I deeply revere, Fr.
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