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 1  2,1 |     increased the authority of the bishops in society but at the same
 2  2,1 |    interests into the lives of the bishops.~ The Church at the same
 3  2,2 |          Most of them were eastern bishops. The aged bishop of Rome
 4  2,2 |        signed by many of the Arian bishops. The more persistent of
 5  2,2 |         the clergy were broadened; bishops were exempted from civil
 6  2,2 |        recalled from exile all the bishops banished during the reign
 7  2,3 |            his predecessors to the bishops and clergy, privileges regarding
 8  2,5 | Constantinople the right to ordain bishops for the provinces of Pontus,
 9  2,5 |            sermons which the Greek bishops of a later period sometimes
10  3,3 |            including many orthodox bishops, arrived at Constantinople
11  3,7 |     Monophysites, He permitted the bishops who had been exiled during
12  3,7 |          by all the patriarchs and bishops. But this was not easy to
13  3,7 |           by Vigilius. The African bishops, having summoned a council,
14  3,7 |        persecuting and exiling the bishops who did not agree with the
15  3,7 |      favored the Monophysites. The bishops who disagreed with him were
16  3,8 |   provinces entrusted to them. The bishops were supposed to watch the
17  4,2 | negotiations with the Monophysitic bishops of the eastern provinces
18  5,5 |            more than three hundred bishops, convened in the palace
19  5,5 |      Constantinople. The number of bishops who came to this council
20  5,5 |          ever accepted idols.” The bishops of the council acclaimed “
21  5,8 |           with this request, Latin bishops and priests soon came to
22  5,8 |          officials and a number of bishops did not follow the dictates
23  6,7 |            send to the capital two bishops, who were to condemn the
24  6,7 |       benefit of metropolitans and bishops.[96]~ This harsh decree,
25  6,7 |           by the patriarch and the bishops, and the Emperor was forced
26  6,8 |      Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, to bishops, monks, and various officials
27  7,1 |        1089 to the Spanish counts, bishops, vice comites and other
28  7,4 |          1089 a synod of the Greek bishops, with Alexius I presiding,
29  8,7 |            Michael I commanded the bishops to be ordained by the local
30  8,7 |        with the consent of all the bishops who lived “in that western
31  8,7 |            especially by the Greek bishops. The proclamation of Theodore
32  8,10|      cherish an enmity towards the bishops and an inward opposition
33  8,10|            Vatatzes that the Roman bishops are “not archpriests of
34  8,14|       known that a great number of bishops and the majority of the
35  8,14|         policy, allowing the Greek bishops to be ordained in the eparchies
36  8,17|           riches had passed to the bishops and clergy; towards the
37  9,5 |  patriarchs of the East, the Greek bishops and the hermits of Mount
38  9,9 |      situation. Popes, sovereigns, bishops, princes, and knights left
39  9,12|     disgraced dignitaries, deposed bishops, interdicted priests, monks
40  9,16|           observed. The patriarch, bishops, and priests were proclaimed
41  9,16|         hands of the patriarch and bishops. The sacred patriarchal