[ealgeone]

Our Triune God has blessed all of us by giving us this good and holy man as the Patriarch of the West.

why is the pope more "holy" than the rest of believers?

[Kolokotronis]

I didn’t say he was, though he was chosen by God to be the Patriarch of the West and is what we Orthodox Greeks call a “Thoro you Theou”, a Gift of God. That’s generally good enough for us simple Eastern Christians.