Under the Ottoman millet system, the Turks referred to the Orthodox as the \\"Rum\\" (= \\"roman,\\" pronounced \\"room\\") millet, and the Patriarchate of Constantinople as the \\"Rum Patriarchate.\\"
We had a priest who used to joke that that made the Orthodox the REAL \\"Roman Catholics\\" (\\"Catholic\\" = \\"universal\\")!
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