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==What if Roman Primacy were Reinstated?==
There are a variety of approaches to what a resuscitated Roman primacy would look like, and that variety is nowhere so clearly and helpfully articulated as in DeVille's book, ''Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy. '' Erickson writes that it might be possible for the Orthodox to accept the view of Papal primacy which developed in the West in the second millennium as legitimate within its historical context.{{ref|42}} He says that "Agreement in principle on some aspects of primacy may be on the horizon."{{ref|43}} He describes Ut Unum Sint as a welcome sign which has reopened discussion of primacy,{{ref|44}} and calls for a "deeper exploration of the meaning of primacy for the ongoing life of the Church…"{{ref|45}}
Zizioulas makes that point that "A universal primus exercising his primacy in such a way is not only useful to the Church but an ecclesiological necessity in a unified Church."{{ref|46}}