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The Prominence of the Bishop of Rome in Early Church History
The bishop of Rome was considered kind of the exclusive Western pope at least in the 6th century. There is this great prominence but supremacy in the sense of a jurisdiction of power that's not something that's representative of that time period. Later after that and then in the year 1054 you have a split between the east and the west what we call the Roman Catholic Church and the east and north. How did those two things develop in early church history?