Now if you will conclude herevpon that Cyprian ruled the church of Rome, or Ireneus the Church of Phrigia, or M. Caluine, or M. Beza the churches of Fraunce, or that they were Bi∣shops or Archbishops of those places, you shall but conclude as you were wont to do: but yet all men vnderstand, that here is nothing lesse than an Archbishop, or any such Bishop as we haue and vse in our church. And if so be that Chrysostome should be Bishop or Archbishop of al these chur∣ches, which were in all Asia, Pontus, Thracia, as you would giue the reader to vnderstand, you make him Bishop of (a) 1.1 more churches than euer the Pope of Rome was, when he was in his greatest pryde, & his empire largest. For there were sixe presidentships in Thracia, & in Asia there were an eleuen princes, & had seuerall regions or gouernments, & in Pontus as many, & if he were Bishop or Archbishop of all the churches within these dominions, he had neede of a long spone to feede with all. (b) 1.2 It is certayne therfore that he was Bishop only of the church in Constantino∣ple, & had an eye and a care to those other churches. And that he was Bishop of one citie or of one churche, it may appeare by that which I haue before alleaged out of the Greeke Scholiast vpon Titus, who citeth there Chrysostome, where it is sayd that S. Paule did not meane to make one ouer the whole Ile, (c) 1.3 but that euery one should haue his proper congregation &c. And in another place he sheweth the difference betwene the Emperour and the Bishop, that the one is ouer the* 1.4 world, and the other, that is the Bishop, is ouer one citie.
Your exāples proue nothing, neither be they any thing like to this of Chrysostome,* 1.5 for Theodorete doth mention these Churches as places annexed to the Bishopricke of Constantinople, & properly apperteyning to the care and charge of Chrysostome the Bishop of that citie. Socrates speaking of a councell assembled at Constantinople, sayth thus: They do againe establish the fayth of the Coūcell of Nice: & deuiding prouinces* 1.6 they appoint Patriarkes, there was therfore allotted vnto Nectarius, the great and ample ci∣tie of Constantinople & Thracia, &c. And this Nectarius was Patriarch of Constanti∣nople next before Chrysostome, so that it is manifest that Chrysostome was Patriarch or Archbishop both of Constantinople and also of Thracia, &c. Sozomenus* 1.7 sheweth euidently that Chrysostome had iurisdiction ouer all Asia, and of other