The whole Grecian empire has recognized the spiritual power of the pope.

Will you be the only people who refuse to enter into the fold of Christ, and to recognize the Roman church as the ark of salvation, out of which no one can be saved?
I have sent to you a cardinal; a man noble, well-instructed, and legate of the successors of the Apostles.

He has received full power to enlighten the minds of the Russians, and to rescue them from all their errors." This pastoral exhortation was entirely unavailing.

The bishops and clergy of the Russian church still pertinaciously adhered to the faith of their fathers.

The crusaders were ere long driven from the imperial city, and the Greek church again attained its supremacy in the East, a supremacy which it has maintained to the present day..