his conquest of Italy the source of woe, [113];
confesses the Primacy of the Pope, while seeking to enthral it to himself, [115];
his persecution of Pope Vigilius during eight years at Constantinople, [286], [393];
as lord of Rome by right of conquest seizes on the confirmation and even nomination of Popes, [380];
from his time the Byzantine emperors claimed the right of confirming Popes, [381];
which they exercised down to Pope Gregory III. in 731, [385];
the maker of the ecumenical patriarchate to hold under the emperor the portfolio of doctrine, [392];
the chief of the theologising emperors, [393];
moulder of the despotism which ate out the eastern episcopate, [410];
which began by the deposition of Pope Silverius through his empress Theodora and continued to Constantine Kopronymus, [411];