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The Catholic Church has never been a "single" Church either. This post schism idea that the entirety of the Church revolves around Rome and every bishop is only a true bishop by his communion with the pope, every church is only a true church by its being submissive to Rome has never been the belief or practice of the undivided church of the first millennium. It is illogical and history easily disproves it. The Church started in Jerusalem, not Rome. St Peter established the Church in Antioch and Alexandria long before he went to Rome to be martyred. Rome operated with appellate authority as a court of last appeals. We don't see this singular Roman supremacist kind of language anywhere in the first millennium in any kind of exclusive sense (the quote mines people appeal to don't mean anything since the Orthodox can do the same with flowery language quotes promoting Constantinople, Antioch and other Patriarchates). Rome and the Orthodox need to sit down together and get back to being the undivided church of the first millennium again. The last three popes, if I'm not mistaken, have publicly said that the Orthodox do not need to accept anything post schism in order to reestablish communion. If that is true then we Byzantine Catholics are not bound to accept it either. Especially when it contradicts with our own faith and patrimony as we received it from the Fathers. I am being accused of speaking polemically but I do not believe this is polemical. This is just how it was in the first millennium and most of the second.

Exactly to the contrary, there is one and only one Catholic Church because there is only one Christ. As St. Ignatius of Antioch ( † ~AD 100 ; Epistle to the Smyrnaeans,§8) teaches:

ὥσπερ ὅπου ἄν ᾖ Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐκεῖ ἡ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία.

For where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.