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Chapter 167 The Ecumenical Council
The Hungarian Civil War ended and Peter withdrew his troops back to Skopje.He continued the governance and assimilation of the Serbian region.

He also got the news that the Principality of Gjirokaster sold its land to the Grand Duke at a price of 3 ducats, and the monarch of Epirus is also negotiating. If successful, Wallachia will border on Morea up.

The Knights and Orders also withdrew from Hungary, and they began to attack the Ottoman region.Soon captured the southern fortress Serey, the Dragon Knights moved their station here, and prepared to attack Thessaloniki.

Thessaloniki is also known as Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, etc.It is the economic and cultural center of Greece and the main transportation hub of Southeast Europe.Its commercial port is very important to Greece and the hinterland of southeastern Europe, and is now occupied by the Ottomans.The goal of the Knights is this harbor city that was once second only to Constantinople.

Speaking of Ottoman, Bayezid quickly annexed many emir states.After the Kadi Emir was annexed, Bayezid basically unified Anatolia. A large amount of land and population belonged to Ottomans, but it also bordered on the new country.

Bayezid treated the surrendered emir favorably, and he needed to gather an army of 10 within five years in order to avenge Wallachia.

At the same time, Bayezid also sent special envoys to Europe to reiterate their friendly relations with them. This made them feel that the Sultan was afraid of them, so they relaxed with Osman and went about their own affairs.

The great schism in the Catholic Church is still going on, and the resulting chaos, corruption, and looting of people's wealth have greatly reduced the prestige of the Church in the eyes of Europeans, and the power and prestige of the Pope have also plummeted.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Peter asked Dean Cyril to appeal to the Patriarch Carroll and the Patriarch of Constantinople in his name to convene an ecumenical council to re-establish the authority of the Orthodox Church.

The Ecumenical Council is a universally representative bishops' conference in Christianity, which consults and votes on important educational affairs and doctrinal disputes. After the great split between the Eastern and Western churches in 1054, the Orthodox Church only recognized the seven previous meetings held together, and did not recognize the ecumenical meeting held by the Catholic Church alone. In terms of frequency, the Orthodox Church has only held two meetings in 300 years. It has been more than 40 years now.Peter felt that in order to re-establish the authority of the Orthodox Church, only the declaration issued by Wallachia was not enough, and the ecumenical council was necessary.

Patriarch Carroll naturally supported it. He wrote to the Universal Patriarch of Constantinople, Anthony IV, and proposed to hold a ecumenical conference. Anthony also had the ambition to revive the Orthodox Church, and he also agreed. Guinea expressed its gratitude and proposed to hold it in Bukuryeshti, the capital of Wallachia.

After getting permission, Patriarch Carol got busy.Although it is busy, it is also very simple. The scope of the Orthodox Church is smaller than that of the Catholic Church. In addition to Wallachia, Greece, and Constantinople, there are Moscow, Transylvania, Antioch, Jerusalem, and The Orthodox bishops of the Alexandria region are expected to number no more than 160.Much smaller than the Catholic Ecumenical Council.

After Constantine the Great established his capital in Constantinople, he began to promote the religious status of Constantinople.In 325 AD, the resolution of the Council of Nicaea, the Church of Rome ranked first among several dioceses, followed by the Church of Alexandria and the Church of Antioch.Later, with the completion and development of Constantinople, this situation changed. Because of its special political status, the Church in Constantinople developed rapidly, and it was much more likely than the Roman Church.In 381 AD, the Second Ecumenical Council of Christianity determined its status under the Roman Church and above other churches.

However, the Church of Constantinople was not content to be inferior to the Church of Rome, ranking second in the Christian world, especially after the ancient capital Rome had lost its original political and cultural center status.In 451 AD, the Fourth Ecumenical Council decided to expand the religious jurisdiction of the Diocese of Constantinople, and explicitly recognized that the Church of Constantinople enjoyed the same religious privileges as the Church of Rome.Originally, the Church of Constantinople would further enhance its status, but this was severely protested by the Church of Rome.Pope Leo I at the time said that the papal authority came from the inheritance of St. Peter.Therefore, the Western Roman Church refused to recognize the primacy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Facing the rising forces of the Crescent Church, the Eastern and Western churches also had a brief "honeymoon period".Especially after the 14th century, the Eastern Roman monarchs asked for assistance from the Western allies several times, and promised to promote the unification of the Eastern and Western Churches. However, the Crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204 so that the Orthodox believers and low-level priests no longer trusted the Western allies. , and even hated it to the bone, and the upper-level clergy of the church were unwilling to accommodate each other in terms of doctrine and rules, so there was no follow-up to the unification.And the Orthodox Church is getting weaker and weaker.

Now Peter intends to re-boost the status of the Church in Constantinople, so that the power of Eastern Europe can be reunited, because the Orthodox Church not only has to face the crescent in the East, but also has to face the heresy in the West.Therefore, the religious characteristics have to be changed.

First of all, the characteristics of armed pilgrimage must be improved, and the martial virtue is too low.Then it is to strengthen the construction of churches and religious orders, and improve missionary capabilities.

Peter also became a missionary and began writing books on the situation of the Catholic Church.The effect in Bohemia was good before, and I plan to make persistent efforts in the future.

Peter didn't say anything about the Trinity or the use of leavened bread, but directly talked about the church's money-making methods and the bishop's illiteracy and extravagant life.Eighty percent of the bishops in Italy have illegitimate children and a large number of lovers. The Archbishop of Cologne is illiterate, and he only obtained this position by donating 30 gold coins to the Church of Rome.

Although there are some deviations, the specific situation is like this.The corruption of the Catholic Church has reached a high level, and it cannot be solved with one reform.Taking advantage of the unstable status of Catholicism, it was one of Peter's expansion policies to insert the Orthodox Church into southern Italy and Hungary.

Culturally, Peter is a strong supporter of native culture.At the same time, it absorbed the Greek and Roman culture, and gave birth to a people-oriented genre.Constanta was the center of their activity, which spread through painting, poetry, literature, etc.Monthly exhibitions are also held near the university to promote it.

Peter is also very supportive of these arts, but he keeps an eye on them so as not to cross the line.The power of the little bourgeois is too great, but the people in the east are more likely to submit, so there should be no problem, but the rulers and churches in the west have some headaches, and they might die.

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