THE GREEK CHURCH. ^19 gave him ample occupation at home, and his projects were, per- force, laid aside.* In the territories subjected to Latin domination the conditions were somewhat different. It was impossible to uproot the native; Church, and the two rites were necessarily permitted to coexist, with alternations of tolerance and persecution, of persuasion and coercion. In 1303 Benedict XL, when ordering the Dominican prior of Hungary to send missionaries to Albania and other prov- inces, speaks of the Latin churches and monasteries in a manner to show that the two rites were allowed side by side, and only intrusions of the Greeks were to be resisted. Documents which chance to have been preserved concerning the kingdom of Cyprus illustrate the perplexities of the situation and the varying policy pursued. In 1216 Innocent III. reduced the bishoprics of the island from fourteen to four — Nicosia, Famagosta, Limisso, and Baffo — and provided in each a Greek and Latin bishop for the respective rites, which was an admission of equality in orthodox v. Forty years later we find the Greek monasteries subjected to the Latin Archbishop of Nicosia, and there seems to have been some ascendency claimed by the Latin prelates, for in 1250 the Greek archbishop petitioned Innocent IY. for permission to reconstitute the fourteen sees and consecrate bishops to fill them ; that they should all be independent of the Archbishop of Nicosia, and that all Greeks and Syrians be subjected to them and not to the Latins. This prayer was rejected. Alexander IY. gave an express power of supervision to the Latin prelates, which naturally led to quar- rels, and at times the Greeks were treated as heretics by zealous churchmen and by those whose authority was set at nought, as we learn from some appeals to Boniface VIII. in 1295. John XXII. energetically endeavored to extirpate certain heresies and heretical practices of the Greeks, but seems to have allowed the regular observance of their rites. Yet about the same time Bernard Gui, in his collection of inquisitorial formulas, gives two forms of abjuration of the Greek errors and reconciliation from the ex- communication pronounced by the canons against the schismatic
- C. 35 Deer. P. n. Caus. xxiv. Q. 9.— Berger, Registres u'Innoc. IV. No. 573,
1817.— Raynald. ami. 1233, No. 1-15.— Epistt. Sgeculi XIII. T. I. No. 725 (Pertz). — Buchon, Recherches et Mat&riaux, pp. 31, 40-2.
