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@branman65 @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @BigBoss_Luffy WELL ORTHODOX DO
I AM APPARENTLY FROM A LINE OF VILLAGE PRIESTS SOMEWHERE IN WESTERN RUSSIA
BUT THE CONCERN IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE WAS EVERY PARISH PRIEST HAVING THE POSSIBILITY OF ACCUMULATING POWER AND HENRY THE EIGHTING AWAY FROM ROME
THE SEE OF ROME WAS LIVING THROUGH CHAOS AND TRIED TO HANG ON TO POWER FOR SURVIVAL THE BEST THEY COULD
THIS LED TO THEM DEVELOPING A BUNCH OF
INITIALLY NOT EVEN THEOLOGICALLY ENSHRINED, JUST PRAGMATIC AND INSTITUTIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS, WHICH OVER THE CENTURIES RESULTED IN THE POPE BEING VERY SURPRISED AS TO THE OTHER FOUR SEES NOT TREATING HIM AS AN AUTOCRAT AND OBEYING HIM