The Orthodox consider the bishop of Rome to have always been merely a first among equals.
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First among equals
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I wonder whether Margaret Thatcher, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone (going back in time) thought of themselves as mere firsts among equals.
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