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The Declaration of Ravenna is a
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document issued on 13 October 2007, re-asserting that the
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is indeed the first ( el, link=no, πρώτος, translit=''protos'') among the patriarchs, although future discussions are to be held on the concrete ecclesiological exercise of
papal primacy Papal primacy, also known as the primacy of the bishop of Rome, is a Roman Catholic ecclesiological doctrine concerning the respect and authority that is due to the pope from other bishops and their episcopal sees. The doctrine is accepted ...
. The document was issued at the tenth plenary session of the
Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church The Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was established by the Holy See and 14 autocephalous Orthodox churches. Plenary sessions The commission's first ten years o ...
held from 8 to 14 October 2007 in
Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the c ...
,
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. The signing of the declaration highlighted the internal tensions between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the
Moscow Patriarchate , native_name_lang = ru , image = Moscow July 2011-7a.jpg , imagewidth = , alt = , caption = Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia , abbreviation = ROC , type ...
, on account of whether the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church had a right to be represented in Ravenna, which eventually led the Moscow delegation to walk out of the talks. It was an internal dispute within Orthodoxy, however, and had no relation to the issues actually addressed at Ravenna.


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Ravenna declaration
Catholic–Eastern Orthodox ecumenism 2007 documents 2007 in Christianity Ravenna 2007 in Italy {{Christianity-stub