HOc schisma & dissidium inter Romanam Ecclesiam & Graecam, tale sumpsit semi∣narium.* 1.1 Quidam Archiepiscopus electus canonice ad quendam nobilem Ar∣chiepiscopatum in Graecia, vel postulatus, Romam adiit confirmandus: nec potuit exaudiri, nisi pro impetratione illa, infinitum aurum promitteret. At ipse de∣testans prostantis Curiae Simoniam, infecto negotio recessit; & hoc toti Graecorum nobilitati nuntiavit. Et alii, qui Romam adierant, testimonium de similibus aut dete∣rioribus perhibebant: Et sic omnes a subjectione Romanae Ecclestae tempore Gregorii istius recesserunt. Indeed they never acknowledged any subjection to the Church of Rome before, but only retained a brotherly Christian communion with her, which they now renounced for her manifold corruptions.
The Pope and his Cardinals, upon Germanus and the Greek Churches Letters to them, endeavouring to prove St. Peters universal Supremacy over all Churches, from * 1.2 Tu vocaberis Cephas, quod interpretatur Petrus. Pasce oves meas, &c. and answer∣ing their objections against it very unsatisfactorily, resolved to reduce them to obe∣dience by force of armes, not argument or Scripture; and published a Crossado against them, as if they were worse then Infidels, most unchristianly diverting the forces defigned to ayde the Holy Land against the Saracens, to murder and destroy the Greek Churches, especially that of Constantinople.