The conciliar idea of episcopal government continues in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Eastern Orthodoxy, all autocephalous primates are seen as collectively gathering around Christ, with other archbishops and bishops gathering around them, and so forth. There is no single primate with exclusive authority comparable to the Pope in Rome. However, the Patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) is seen as the , the "first among equals" of the autocephalous churches of Eastern Orthodoxy.
The conciliar idea of episcopal government continues in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Eastern Orthodoxy, all autocephalous primates are seen as collectively gathering around Christ, with other archbishops and bishops gathering around them, and so forth. There is no single pr.imate with exclusive authority comparable to the Pope in Rome However, the Patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul) is seen as the , the "first among equals" of the autocephalous churches of Eastern Orthodoxy.