Page "Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople" Paragraph 15

In 2007, the Patriarch gave his approval to the Declaration of Ravenna, a Catholic – Orthodox document re-asserting that the Bishop of Rome is indeed the Prōtos (" First ") of the Church, as in " first among equals " and not supreme, although future discussions are to be held on the concrete ecclesiological exercise of papal primacy.

According to " Subsistit in " in Lumen Gentium, the Patriarch is a validly consecrated bishop in Roman ecclesiology, and there is merely an imperfect ecclesial communion between Constantinople and Rome, which exists nevertheless and which may be improved at some point in history.