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  1. Buba

    Islam never arose, instead full Roman Catholicism or a variant spread through the Middle East and other areas?

    Oh, if they did then nobody took it seriously :) The Big Five supervised their "fiefs" - and often did not have much control over them anyway. For 2-3 centuries the Roman Popes* were Good Greeks or Syrians appointed by the Emperor ... and if a Bishop of Rome misbehaved then it was - the horror...
  2. Buba

    Islam never arose, instead full Roman Catholicism or a variant spread through the Middle East and other areas?

    The Roman Patriarch ending up with a state of his own is IMO a fluke. It was opportunity coming together with papal personalities. IMO it as the whittling down of the Big Five to defacto two that enabled the Catholic vs Orthodox split. Had Antioch and Alexandria been in Christian polities, then...
  3. Buba

    Islam never arose, instead full Roman Catholicism or a variant spread through the Middle East and other areas?

    No Islam = Roman Patriarch remains one of the Big Five, alongside his peers - yes, PEERS - from Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Jerusalem (alphabetical order). No Catholicism vs. Orthodox split as we know it evah.
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