I'm not super knowledgeable of before the 10th century unfortunately. Lots of arguments for both sides about legitimacy, in the end. But that got reciprocated and the legate got excommunicated back, so that's an entirely tenuous claim I wouldn't actually make. Though officially, if Wikipedia is accurate, it was a papal legate that excommunicated the Ecumenial Patriarch first, which technically could let you argue that the Orthodox were forcefully split off from the Catholics. So when I said "at that time", I meant the extremely early church (as in, first two centuries) and was looking at it from a Western perspective of the Catholic Church being the original. To some extent, the fact there are more Catholics makes it seem somewhat more "natural" to consider them the original church, even if that's not a valid way of determining legitimacy. I guess in Eastern Europe, you guys see it the other way around with an equally unbroken lineage from St. From the conventional Western perspective, the Orthodox are always depicted as the ones breaking away.
This is actually an interesting perspective I hadn't really considered.
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