his authority . Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road so he assembled the sanhedrim ... for Ananus to assemble a sanhedrim without his consent. Whereupon Albinus complied with what they said ... more details
Synedrion or Synhedrion Greek language Greek , sitting together, hence Deliberative assembly assembly or council lang he , sanhedrin is a Greek word for an assembly that holds formal sessions. The Latinized form is synedrium . Depending on the widely varied constitutions, it applied to diverse representative and or judiciary organs of Greek and hellenistic polis city state s and treaty organisations. Etymology Synedrion was adopted by Hellenistic Judaism Hellenistic Jews and corrupted into Aramaic language Aramaic as sanhedrin , actually in full sanhedrin gedola great council in Late Hebrew. It was further corrupted to sanhedrim as a false correction when the Greek word was taken into Mishnaic Hebrew , where in is a form of the plural suffix of which im is the more exact form , for the high council of the Jewish nation after its state had been reduced by the Roman empire to vassalitic puppet states under Tetrarchy Judea tetrarchs , see Iudaea province , but was itself abolished in 70 AD after Titus destruction of Jerusalem and reconvened in Council of Jamnia Jamnia . Synedrions in Greek states Macedonia main Macedon Council .28Synedrion.29 The supreme body of Alexander the Great s empire was also called Synedrion . The Council was a small group formed among some of the most eminent Macedonians, chosen by the king to assist him in the government of the kingdom. As such it was not a representative assembly, but notwithstanding that on certain occasions it could be expanded with the admission of representatives of the cities and of the civic corps of the kingdom. The Council primarily exerted a probouleutic function with respect to the Assembly it prepared and proposed the decisions which the Assembly would have discussed and voted, working in many fields such as the designation of kings and regents, as of that of the high administrators and the declarations of war. It was also the first and the last authority for all the cases which did not involve ca ... more details
POV date October 2011 The primacy of the Bishop of Rome is an ecclesiastical doctrine concerning the the respect and authority that is due to the Bishop of Rome from other bishops and their sees. Together with the Filioque Filioque controversy , differences in interpretation of this doctrine have been and remain the primary causes of schism between the Western and Eastern Orthodox churches. ref name Kasper2006 cite book last Kasper first Walter title The Petrine ministry Catholics and Orthodox in dialogue academic symposium held at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity url http books.google.com books?id 3mxbj99yRaQC&pg PA188 accessdate 22 December 2011 year 2006 publisher Paulist Press isbn 978 0 8091 4334 4 page 188 quote The question of the primacy of the Roman pope has been and remains, together with the question of the Filioque, one of the main causes of separation between the Latin Church and the Orthodox churches and one of the principal obstacles to their union. ref In the Eastern Orthodox Church , some understand the primacy of the Bishop of Rome to be merely one of greater honour, treating him as primus inter pares first among equals , without effective power over other churches, ref http vaticaninsider.lastampa.it en homepage inquiries and interviews detail articolo germania germany alemania 8380 Ratzinger s Ecumenism between light and shadows ref while others see primacy as indeed power, the expression, manifestation and realization in one bishop of the power of all the bishops, an expression and manifestation of the unity not just of the churches but of the Church. ref http www.google.com search?tbm bks&tbo 1&q meyendorff 22primacy is power 22 &btnG John Meyendorff editor , The Primacy of Peter St Vladimir s Seminary Press 1995 ISBN 9780881411256 , p. 165 ref The Catholic Church attributes to the primacy in question as involving full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered , ref ... more details
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