It was organised by a Catholic body the Council of European Episcopal Conferences and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which by tradition enjoys "primacy of honour" in the Orthodox Christian world.
In 1996, a few months before Britain handed the territory back to China, an Orthodox mission was established there by the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, who by tradition enjoys primacy among the world's Orthodox bishops (although the precise nature of that primacy is disputed).
It is only in the applicative sense that the EU enjoys primacy, and not when it comes to validity.
Realists emphasize power and security issues, the need for a state to maximize its expected self-interest and, above all, their view of the international arena as a kind of anarchy, in which the will to power enjoys primacy.
In practice, the executive branch enjoys primacy.
For one thing, Afric' Music no longer enjoys the primacy it had when it opened, in 1976.
Even before the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York enjoyed commercial primacy, but, as trade from the interior of the continent flowed onto its piers, the city also attained legal, insurance, and manufacturing primacy.
The elder Mr Miliband enjoys a primacy of sorts: urged by some to challenge Mr Brown for the party leadership early this year, he snagged the most important office after refusing to do so.
Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch who enjoys a "primacy of honour" among the bishops of the Orthodox world, will have a symbolically resonant meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem on May 25th.
Finally, the principle of duty enjoys motivational primacy.
