And, as we said in the preceding canons, that the matters defined with regard to the pope are not his privileges alone, so that all condemned bishops must from necessity go before the throne of Rome, but that this is understood in as certain sense as to Constantinople. These things we say yet again. Angold, Byzantine Empire , p. 238, points out that Balsamon extended the papal analogy to his description of the administration of the Great Church. This text is copyright. The specific electronic form, and notes and questions are copyright.
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