Символите на папската власт: един различен поглед към образите на римските първосвещеници в православната стенопис на Балканите
Symbols of Papal Authority: A Different Look at Images of Roman Popes in Orthodox Frescoes in the Medieval Balkans

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the symbols of papal authority in several Orthodox monuments from the medieval, post-Byzantine and National Revival periods. The positioning of the Roman popes in the Orthodox church space shows not only a memory of the works of the early bishops (before 1054), but also how Orthodox apologists imagine the world and how they offer it to the ultimate recipients who daily „communicate" with the visual images on the walls of the churches. The inclusion of the Roman bishops in the Orthodox model of the universe (and precisely in certain places, but never in the center) and the imposition on them of an identity foreign to them, but familiar to the local passimi reveal the methods that the Orthodox Church chooses to oppose the Pope's claims to supremacy: the constant reminder of the past, when Rome was also Orthodox, and the steadily imposed concept of the unity and collegiality of the Church, whose most authoritative body is the Ecumenical Council.

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