Footnote

i “The sixth Council of Carthage forbade all the bishops to take the title of prince of the bishops, or sovereign bishop.” “Pope Pelagius II [579-590] calls John, Bishop of Constantinople, who aspired to the high priesthood, ‘impious and profane.’ ‘Do not care,’ he said, ‘for the title of universal which John has usurped illegally.’ (Pelagius II, Lett. 13.)”—Strossmayer.