Sentence 1: At that time , Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the Patriarch of Constantinople was the most influential leader of the Church in the eastern Christian world .
Sentence 2: At that time , Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Christian Empire and the Patriarch of Constantinople was the most influential leader of the Church in the Byzantine world .

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(A).