The exarch was permitted to reside within the walls of Ravenna, a captive rather than a master; and till the Imperial coronation of Charlemagne, the government of Rome and Italy was exercised in the name of the successors of Constantine.
Therefore Olympius, Constans' chamberlain in 649, came to Italy as exarch with orders to arrest the pope and bring him to Constantinople: this it seemed to him a prudent thing to do; he was to judge for himself.
On his advent in Rome, however, the exarch found that he must abandon Paschal and consent to the election of Sergius, in which all concurred.
They met in Rome, the pope about to set sail, the exarch on his way to Ravenna, where he was apparently assassinated in a popular tumult, "the just reward of his wickedness.
There is a story that he attempted instead to take the pope's life as he said Mass, but this is probably untrue, for we find pope and exarch presently excellent friends.
And henceforth the mere appearance of the exarch in Rome was regarded as an insult and a declaration of war.
Liutprand laid his crown and his sword at the pope's feet and begged, not only for his own forgiveness, but for that of the exarch his ally.
The exarch in 710 was Joannes Rizocopus, and in that year pope Constantine visited Constantinople with the future pope Gregory II.
The exarch Gregory was succeeded apparently by a certain Theodore whose contemporary archbishop in Ravenna was also a Theodore.
I first met the Exarch some years ago while on a visit to Bulgaria.
This propaganda was actively supported by the Bulgarian Church under its enlightened high-priest, His Beatitude Joseph, Exarch of Bulgaria.
And now Narses, established as exarch of Ravenna, a sort of satrap, like those of the Persian Emperors, and representing the Emperor of Constantinople, was rewarded for all his conquests and labours by disgrace.
Again; Leo the Iconoclast Emperor destroyed the holy images in the East, and sent commands to the Exarch of Ravenna to destroy them in western Italy.
The Patriarch excommunicated the first Exarch and all who gave their allegiance to him, and since then there has been bitter hatred between the Orthodox and the schismatics.
This explains how the exarch of Ravenna delayed for more than a year the confirmation of the election of the next pope, =Severinus=, A.
The patriarch and his synod now stigmatized Phyletism, the struggle for a national church establishment, as accursed heresy, and excommunicated the exarch and the whole Bulgarian church.
By conferring the patriciate upon the two Frankish princes, the pope, indeed, himself acknowledged that the suzerainty now belonged to them which formerly the Byzantine emperor had exercised by his viceroy, the exarch of Ravenna.
The exarch of Ravenna, Olympius, was now ordered to take the bold prelate prisoner, but did not obey.
And through the sin a great destruction fell on the Roman army, and then the exarch died of disease.
Their election itself had to be confirmed by the exarch as representing the emperor, or by the emperor himself.
But he returned presently, at the instance of the exarch of Ravenna, to the errors which he had renounced.
Theodorus, a Greek of Jerusalem, was made Pope: it is supposed by the influence of the exarch Isaac.
The exarch was the choice instrument of the emperor's despotism.
There was war between theexarch and the Lombard king, Rotharis, but it did not touch Rome.
We hear nothing of the exarch giving help either to defend or to ransom the emperor's subjects.
They are also frequently Greeks or Orientals; and here the suspicion arises that the exarch of the emperor had influenced the election in the hope that some national feeling might affect them in the administration of their office.
In the territory of Ravenna it came to a fierce struggle between the Italians on the Pope's side and the imperials, in which the exarch Paul lost his life.
Smaragdus was in his eleventh year as exarch, and we know that he was exarch under Mauricius for five years, A.
In February 1896 Russia proposed the reconciliation of the Greek and Bulgarian churches and the removal of the exarch to Sofia.
The election of the first exarch was delayed till February 1872, owing to the opposition of the patriarch, who immediately afterwards excommunicated the new head of the Bulgarian church and all his followers.
Metropolitan), let him have recourse to the Exarchof the diocese, or to the throne of the Imperial city of Constantinople, and plead his cause before him.
The two supreme officials of the Italian province were the Exarch and the Prefect.
Its lord dwelt at Constantinople; Rome was subject to his exarch at Ravenna.
The title of Exarchthen came up, and continued to the end of the Greek dominion in Italy.
The exarch writes that he can give us no help, for he has not force enough to guard Ravenna.
The exarch was a governor general, to whom the dukes, prefects or patricians, and also the governors of particular territories or cities, were subordinate.
This rule of the Pragmatic Sanction was not an isolated instance; at every point the bishop was placed en rapport with the State, with the provincials, and with the exarch himself.
Rome was becoming independent of emperor and of exarch alike.
The exarch led forth his troops from Carthage: but, at the distance of six days' journey, in the neighborhood of Tebeste, he was astonished by the superior numbers and fierce aspect of the Barbarians.
Tormented by their repeated attacks, Rome sought help in vain from Byzantium, whose forces, scarce able to repel from their walls the Avars and Saracens, could give no support to the distant exarch of Ravenna.
Po, and founded the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento, leaving the rest of the country to be governed by the exarch of Ravenna as viceroy of the Eastern crown.
In the nineteenth century the first great concession she wrung from her Turkish masters was the setting up (1870) of a Bulgarian Exarch to be the official head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church independent of the Greek Patriarch.
The opposition of the Bulgarians led, as we have already seen, to the establishment in 1870 of the exarchate, that is, of an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church with the exarch at its head.
The new Bulgarian exarch was immediately excommunicated by the Greek patriarch.
Exarch Olympius appeared on the threshold with orders to seize and put him to death.
Opposite the Basilica Julia, in the depth of the Forum, is the Column of Phocas, raised to that emperor by the exarch Smaragdus in 608.
Pope Gregory appealed to the exarch at Ravenna for help, but that official was unable to do more than maintain his own position, which was also threatened.
He also promised to instruct the Exarch of Ravenna to co-operate with Childebert.
But he only, and the hired assassin beside him, had known what was to be, and the people say that the Exarch and the Pope were already reconciled and agreed against the Emperor.
Silence then, at the Consecration, and the dark-browed Exarch bowing to the pavement, beside the paid murderer whose hand is already on his dagger's hilt.
Olympius, Exarchof Italy, was the chosen tool of the Emperor, sent again and again to Rome to destroy the brave Bishop and make way for the impostor.
Letter from the church at Rome to the exarch of Ravenna, ca.
So, in the seventh century, the emperor, at the request of the Romans, commissioned his exarch at Ravenna to act for him in this matter.
A Letter from the Church at Rome to the Exarch at Ravenna, Asking him to Confirm the Election of their Bishop, ca.
