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===Primacy of honor not without authority===
Metropolitan John Zizioulas says that the phrase "primacy of honor" often used by Orthodox may be misleading, because the exercise of primacy necessarily involves actual duties and responsibilities.{{ref|26}} This position has been most clearly articulated in the landmark article of the historian Brian Daley: "Position and Patronage in the Early Church: the Original Meaning of 'Primacy of Honor'," ''Journal of Theological Studies'' 44 (1993): 529-553. Daley demolishes the usual nonsense about 'primacy of honor' meaning the primate is a toothless titular smiling beningly and impotently over the Church. The primacy exercised by the Patriarch of Constantinople, for example, has included such things as the right to convoke councils in cooperation with the other Patriarchs, and an emergency right of intervention when help is requested by another Patriarchate:{{ref|27}}
::"In response to the present Roman Catholic understanding of the Petrine Office, Orthodox theologians have not rejected the concept of primacy but only its development by the Church of Rome. Among the Orthodox, there has been an attempt to recognize the various expressions of primatial leadership in the life of the Church, and to place primacy within the framework of concilliarity."{{ref|28}}