<P> Canon 9 of the Council also declared: "If a bishop or clergyman should have a difference with the metropolitan of the province, let him have recourse to the Exarch of the Diocese, or to the throne of the Imperial City of Constantinople, and there let it be tried ." This has been interpreted as conferring on the see of Constantinople a greater privilege than what any council ever gave Rome, or as of much lesser significance than that . </P> <P> After the Council of Chalcedon (451), the position of the Patriarchate of Alexandria was weakened by a division in which the great majority of its Christian population followed the form of Christianity that its opponents called Monophysitism . </P> <P> In 476, when the last emperor of the western part of the Roman Empire was deposed and the western imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople, there was once again a single Roman Emperor . However, he had little power in the West, which was ruled almost entirely by various Germanic tribes . In the opinion of Randall R. Cloud, the permanent separation of the Greek East from the Latin West was "the fundamental reason for the estrangement that soon followed between the Greek and the Latin Christians". </P> <P> The dominant language of the West was Latin, while that of the East was Greek . Soon after the fall of the West to invaders, the number of individuals who spoke both languages dwindled, and communication between East and West grew much more difficult . With linguistic unity gone, cultural unity began to crumble as well . The two halves of the Church were naturally divided along similar lines; they developed different rites and had different approaches to religious doctrines . Although the schism was still centuries away, its outlines were already perceptible . </P>

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