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Patriarch Michael Cerularius & Patriarch Dionysius of Antioch both explain that it wasn't Pope Victor II of Rome [1055-1057] who was the first Pope to never enter the diptychs of the Orthodox Church, but that both in Constantinople as well as in Antioch the
commemoration of the Pope had disappeared from the diptychs over 45 years prior to that time. This means that the Byzantine Patriarchates of the East stopped commemorating any Pope of Rome since around 1010 AD. This makes perfect sense, because the last truly Orthodox Pope of Rome is John Filagato, whom the Franks call an anti-pope. He was blinded & maimed by the Franks & thrown in a dungeon, where he died around 1009 AD. While he was in prison, the Franks enthroned the first Franko-Germanic "Pope", the 24 year old Bruno who took the
name "Gregory V."
It's thus Bruno whom we Orthodox consider the anti-pope, & from that day until now only anti-popes occupy the throne. Meanwhile the Orthodox bishops in Italy & West were advised to commemorate the Metropolitan of Achris (Ochrid in the Balkans) in the place they would normally commemorate the Pope. Metropolitans of Achris were Latin-speaking (Aromanians-Vlachs) & thus continued to represent whatever part of the Latin nation remained within the Orthodox Church. Today this place seems held by the Orthodox Patriarch of Romania.
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