Assertion: pope's letter | /r/CapableOf | acknowledge the bishop of rome
Facets:
value: as a first
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Documents of the 1st century and early 2nd century indicate that the bishop of Rome had some kind of pre-eminence and prominence in the Church as a whole, as even a letter from the bishop, or patriarch, of Antioch acknowledged the Bishop of Rome as "a first among equals", though the detail of what this meant is unclear.