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 ::I can't believe you actually just wrote that the Oriental Orthodox viewpoint ""must take a backseat to what the sources say"" ie Roman Catholic sources like the Council of Chalcedon. And you call that ""neutral?""   So, the Oriental Orthodox Churches are now supposed to be taking a back seat to Chalcedon?  That is the same crap that we have been hearing ever since 451, but it wasn't neutral or accepted then, and it isn't neutral or accepted now.   Please do some deeper research. Despite what your sources say, the Pentarchy did not suddenly spring up into existence in 451 when the Monophysite Patriarchs were deposed and replaced with Roman lackeys.  And Jerusalem was THE original Patriarchate since James the Just, it did not suddenly become a Patriarchate in 451 when a Vatican pretender was appointed alongside the real one.  The city of Jerusalem was only called 'Aelia' as a Roman pagan insult against the God of Abraham, and this ""name"" was only used in the very same spirit that caused Longinus to impale the Lord on the cross.  To the true Christians it was always Jerusalem.  The original 325 Pentarchy took form after Nicea, and note that it gave equal jurisdiction to the patriarchs in each of their areas.  It is the very same spirit that caused the Archbishop of Rome to assert his own authority over the other Patriarchs, excommunicate them and ""depose"" them in 451 AD, simply because they couldn't sign a document stating that Jesus was schizophrenic.     

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