Founded in 681 as a pagan state, Bulgaria was formally Christianised by Byzantine clergy in the 860s, under Prince Boris (r. 852-889).

The Byzantine clergy was to be banished from the country and replaced with Bulgarian clerics.

The removal of the Byzantine clergy and the Greek language from the liturgy ensured that Bulgaria would stay away from any strong or direct Byzantine influence in its policy and religious life.

Not satisfied with the extinction of the political life of the greatest of the Armenian kingdoms, the Byzantine clergy insisted upon converting Armenians to the Greek Orthodox faith.

In 893, Bulgaria expelled its Byzantine clergy and proclaimed the Bulgarian as the official language of the Bulgarian Church and State.

On 12 December of that year he was able to unite three hundred of the Byzantine clergy in a celebration of the short-lived reunion.

But the reaction from the Byzantine clergy and people was far more violent.

The Byzantine clergy is made to leave and replaced by Bulgarian.

In the late 1430s the Metropolitan of Trebizond joined the Byzantine clergy at the Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence.

Secondly, the author displays anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism, characteristic of Byzantine clergy at this time.