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Not exactly....
Papal "authority" prior to the Great Schism was largely (entirely?) one of *honor*. The bishop of Rome was considered, in essence, the bishop deserving of the most respect by other bishops. However, the bishops of the Great Schism never agreed that the bishop of Rome was the primate of the Roman Church, with authority over all other officers of the church. For a long time, the bishop of Constantinople was considered an equal with the bishop of Rome, and for the remainder of the centuries up until the Great Schism, he was largely considered in both word and deed second in honor only to the bishop of Rome. When the supporters of Roman supremacy demanded obedience as well as honor, plus adherence to the Western formula of trinity, the Orthodox bishops "bolted" and retained the classic setup, much more like a confederation than the system adopted by the Roman Catholic Church.
Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/
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Before 1054, were the Eastern Orthodox Churches under Papal authority?
