So, the Byzantine Papacy is the period from 537-752 in which the Byzantine Empire controlled a central portion of Italy, Rome, and had a deciding hand in the nature of the Bishop of Rome in the West. During this period Rome once more became a cosmopolitan city as ideas and money from the East flowed into the city. Notably Greek was the language of the Papacy bureaucracy over the local Latin majority for much of this period.
How would the local church have been shaped if the Byzantine Papacy had continued largely uncontended? Would Latin eventually have risen over Greek? Would a split in the Church still have occured? As well as other matters both large and small, secular and theological, etc.
How would the local church have been shaped if the Byzantine Papacy had continued largely uncontended? Would Latin eventually have risen over Greek? Would a split in the Church still have occured? As well as other matters both large and small, secular and theological, etc.