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Rh of Rome. In the list he draws up of sees under the Patriarch of Constantinople he counts "from the Western land two Exarchs who have now submitted themselves to him of Constantinople" — namely, the Bishops of Thessalonica and of Corinth. "But also Sicily, after this, and Calabria, came under him of Constantinople, and St Severina, which is also called Nikopolis. All Sicily had one Metropolitan, him of Syracuse. ... Calabria also has one Metropolitan, him of Rhegium." Yet Neilos counts St Severina as a Metropolis, having sees under it. He adds: "These Churches are described in the lists of the Nomocanon under the throne of Constantinople. ... Therefore the sees of Sicily, Calabria, and of St Severina have been taken away from the Roman and added to the Byzantine throne, when the Barbarians, having seized the Pope, made Rome their spoil and turned it to their own use." "Nevertheless," he says, "the Pope is found to retain some mean places and certain bishoprics in Sicily and Calabria; but the Byzantine possessed the Metropolitan cities and the more famous and illustrious ones, till the Franks (Normans) came. So also in Langobardia and Apulia, and in all those parts, Constantinople once held the chief cities, Rome the others." He says that "Langobardy," "which was old Greece, was once under the Emperor (namely, before the Lombards came). The Pope lived apart under other nations; therefore the Patriarch obtained these Churches. For Brundisium and Tarentum received their bishops from Constantinople; no one is ignorant of this. But when the Franks occupied this Duchy, then the Roman held ordinations in all these Churches. In all those regions which the Emperor at Constantinople held, or afterwards conquered from foreign races, the Constantinopolitan ordained by right, while Rome, alien from Constantinople in every way, subjected others to herself." Neilos then draws up a long list of sees subject to Constantinople. Among these are "Rhegium of Calabria, having thirteen sees," "Syracuse of Sicily, having twenty-one sees," "Catana, being an episcopate under Syracuse, has