Is there a middle ground on Papal Supremacy?

If there was a negotiated avoidance of the Great Schism, is it possible to have a middle ground in Papal Supremacy between the Eastern and Western churches? Or is it simply a matter where you have to decide on it one way or the other?
 
Not really no - the implication of being first is clear. The Orthodox have a kind of "first among equals elder brother look" but in practice this takes the form as it always did - Clement I of Rome sending letters of formal correction to Asia Minor and the Roman Church issuing anathemas. The fight was always going to be political, and so long as there's an Emperor in Constantinople (who isn't desperate like Florence), there will be a separation of sorts
 
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