О настоящих патриархатах и не очень... (Об одном эпизоде борьбы за Болгарию между Римом и Константинополем)
About a True and Not So True Patriarchates... (About one episode of a struggle for Bulgaria between Rome and Constantinople)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is one of the episode of ecclesiastical struggle for Bulgary between Rome and Constantinople in the 60 of the 9th century. The author analyzes the Answers of Pope Nicholas the I, particulary answer 92, where the Pope divides all the patriarchates as «true», that is founded by St. Peter (Rome, Alexandria, Antiochia) and false (Constantinople, Jerusalem). This theory goes back to Innocent the I and Leo the Great, who opposed the famous 28 rule of Chalcedon. Pope Nicholas the I tried to use this theory both for the struggle against Constantinople and for domination over Bulgary. This policy eventually failed, for the legats of the Pope had to accept the second place of Constantinople in 869 and Bulgary escaped from the Church jurisdiction of the Rome. Reasons of Rome’s defeat are considered in archaic and stubborn canonic consciousness.

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